Not only did 19th century American General Abner Doubleday not invent the game of baseball, he never claimed to have done so. None of his surviving letters make any reference to the claim, and no mention was made of it in his obituaries and funeral orations. The myth was entirely based on a single, uninvestigated claim made 15 years after his death.
Doubleday did, however, fire the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter.
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Doubleday did, however, fire the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter.
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