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Jul 11, 2024 · SARATOGA SPRINGS — Abner Doubleday, best known as the man who did not invent baseball, is probably the most consequential figure in American history to have lived in Ballston Spa. He witnessed the beginning of the Civil War.
5 days ago · He enlisted along with an Irish militia called the Emmet Guards in the 13th Vermont and became a captain of its Company A. Part of George Stannard’s Brigade of Abner Doubleday’s Third Division of the First Corps, they successfully battled Confederates in Winfield Scott Hancock’s section on Day 2, and Lonergan received the Medal of Honor ...
4 days ago · This 1863 oval-shaped map depicts the Gettysburg Battlefield during July 1–3, 1863, showing troop and artillery positions and movements, relief hachures, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with the names of residents at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. This November 1862 Harper's Magazine illustration shows Confederate Army troops escorting captured African American civilians south ...
Jul 11, 2024 · The history of vintage baseball dates back nearly as far as the mythical mid-19th-century origination of baseball in the U.S. by Abner Doubleday. There is ample evidence our Canadian cousins played “base ball” in 1793, some 40 years earlier. The VBBA is based on an organization established in 1845.
6 days ago · Alfred Manuel Martin Jr. (May 16, 1928 – December 25, 1989), commonly called " Billy ", was an American Major League Baseball second baseman and manager who, in addition to leading other teams, was five times the manager of the New York Yankees.
4 days ago · It’s not because Cooperstown falsely claims to be the birthplace of baseball — that myth has been debunked, and the truth is acknowledged in a display in the Hall of Fame. Even though the adjoining ball field is named for Abner Doubleday, the Museum includes an exhibit explaining that the Doubleday creation story is pure fiction.
6 days ago · This was despite the fact that new lodges of the organization had been established throughout the U.S. and in London, and prominent figures like Thomas Edison and Abner Doubleday had joined. In July 1878, Blavatsky gained U.S. citizenship.
Jul 12, 2024 · A wonderful tribute to the inventor of baseball, Abner Doubleday, this unique baseball shaped glass decanter perches atop a ball field shaped pedestal. A perfect replica of an actual baseball, right down to the 108 stitches, Doubleday’s actual signature is etched onto every hand blown bottle.
Jul 12, 2024 · Abner Kneeland, Speech of Abner Kneeland Delivered Before the Supreme Court of the City of Boston, in His Own Defence, on an Indictment for Blasphemy. November Term, 1834 (J. Q. Adams, 1834), 16; and Abner Kneeland, “A Philosophical Creed,” Boston Investigator, July 12, 1833. 14. Boston Investigator, October 14, 1846. 15.
Jul 11, 2024 · SARATOGA SPRINGS — Silver Therapeutics, a cannabis company co-owned by a Saratoga Springs resident, opened the first recreational dispensary in the city last Friday on Weibel Avenue. “We wanted to be...
