Título: Abner Doubleday
Seção: Baseball
Background: Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 - January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men.

Conteúdo: Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely known as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.  The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball. The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that "the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839." It concluded by saying, "in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army."  However, there is considerable evidence to dispute this claim. Baseball historian George B. Kirsch has described the results of the Mills Commission as a "myth". He wrote, "Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown." At his death, Doubleday left many letters and papers, none of which describe

user: When did Abner Doubleday have a relationship with baseball?

assistant: he is more widely known as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

user: How did he invent baseball?

assistant: he is more widely known as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball,

user: When did he invent baseball?

assistant: 1839.

user: Who played baseball after Doubleday invented it?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Why is baseball interesting with Doubleday?

assistant: There may have been some relationship to baseball as a national sport and Abner Doubleday.

user: What happened after he invented baseball?

assistant: Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

user: What did Mills say about Doubleday?

assistant: the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839."

user: How did Doubleday describe baseball?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What is the significance of Doubleday inventing baseball?

assistant: never recalled hearing Doubleday describe his role as the inventor.