It’s a common misconception that Civil War Union General Abner Doubleday invented the sport of baseball in 1839. A special commission created by baseball executive Albert Spalding determined in 1908 ...

Baseball may have found its birth certificate. And with it a new birth date, and new founding father. Coinciding with the start of the professional baseball season, a set of game-changing 1857 ...

Heroic creativity is part of the American creed. Our fathers founded. Edison invented the light bulb; Bell, the telephone; the Wrights, airplanes. That’s how this country rolls. Thus it makes sense ...

Major League Baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of the World Series in October 2003. In the first-ever World Series in 1903, the Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox) defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 ...

Kind of a silly question, really. But Bob McManaman of AZCentral.com asks it, and he concludes it would not be popular if someone -- say a guy named Ted Prisby -- invented it today, because the only ...

When the first professional league was formed in 1871, baseball was already a fully formed modern sport with championships, media coverage, and famous stars. Professional baseball invented an ...