Baseball has long been known as America's Pastime, as it was supposedly first invented by Civil War general Abner Doubleday back in 1839. This has long been the accepted truth about baseball's creation, but in recent years it's starting to look more and more likely that Doubleday had nothing to do with inventing the sport.After all, he never took credit for it, and after his death Doubleday left a lot of papers and letters to his family. None of them ever mentioned baseball. So if Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball, just who in the hell did? Well, if you were to ask a couple of Brits, they'd tell you it was author Jane Austen.
