"Faraway the American people introduced baseball -- how interesting it is." So wrote Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki, who was ...

At 3:13 p.m. ET, Cleveland will experience a total solar eclipse -- a once-in-generations event -- for the first time since 1806, 13 years before the birth of Abner Doubleday, the Civil War hero ...

In the United States, it was long believed that American Civil War hero Abner Doubleday, a major general of the Union Army, invented baseball in his youth. In 1939, the supposed 100th anniversary ...