doubleday in A Sentence

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    Doubleday's father fought in the War of 1812.

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    A“ Doubleday Field.

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    General Abner Doubleday.

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    Doubleday died in 1893, so he couldn't be asked directly.

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    Alexander Cartwright was the true inventor, but it's Doubleday who people remember.

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    Actually, Alexander Cartwright was the real inventor, but it's Doubleday who people remember.

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    So what happened in 1907 to make people start thinking Abner Doubleday invented baseball?

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    But soon, he got a call that Doubleday wanted to publish his book in hardcover.

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    This includes Doubleday himself never mentioning it in the many letters and journals he wrote in his lifetime.

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    As A.G. Mills stated in 1926 when asked what conclusive proof the Commission had that Doubleday invented the sport, he replied:.

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    Despite Abner Doubleday having had nothing to do with baseball's origin, the Baseball Hall of Fame still displays an oil painting of Doubleday.

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    Given Abner Graves was four years old when Doubleday left Cooperstown for West Point, it's not clear how he learned of the details of this supposed first game.

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    Two blocks from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, there is also a“Doubleday Field” which until 2008 hosted the“Hall of Fame Game” during the Hall of Fame induction weekend.

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    When he sold the film rights to The Firm to Paramount Pictures for $600,000, Grisham suddenly became a hot property among publishers and book rights were bought by Doubleday.

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    Published as an e-book and paperback(by the Writer's Coffee Shop, a small publishing house based in Australia) in 2011, Fifty Shades of Gray was then picked up by Knopf Doubleday and sold more than 150 million copies.

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    His big break came not too long after he began teaching, when Doubleday agreed to publish Carrie in 1973(ultimately published in 1974), which was a bestseller and allowed him to be able to quit teaching and devote himself full time to writing.

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    He claimed to have been in Cooperstown when future Civil War General Abner Doubleday outlined the diamond in the dirt and wrote up the rules for the game, but his close friend AG Mills didn't remember ever mentioning it, and Doubleday attended Westpoint- not Cooperstown.

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    He even claimed to have been in Cooperstown when future Civil War General Abner Doubleday outlined the diamond in the dirt and wrote up the rules for the game, but his close friend AG Mills didn't remember ever mentioning it, and Doubleday attended Westpoint- not Cooperstown.

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    Close friends of Doubleday, which included A.G. Mills who was on the Commission, claimed that not only could they not remember a single instance of Doubleday ever claiming to have had anything to do with baseball, none of them even remember him even mentioning the sport at all, despite its spreading popularity towards the end of Doubleday's life.

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    Two blocks from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown(where Doubleday was said to have invented baseball, which is why the Hall of Fame was put in this backwater town instead of a place more accessible to fans), there is also a“Doubleday Field” which annually features various Hall of Famers and retired MLB players playing an exhibition game there on Father's Day weekend.

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