Editing Abner Doubleday (section)

==Namesakes and honors==
[[File:Abner Doubleday monument Ballston Spa, NY.jpg|thumb|right|Abner Doubleday monument in Ballston Spa]]
Doubleday's men, admirers, and the state of New York erected a monument to him at Gettysburg.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gettysburgsculptures.com/major_general_doubleday_monument |title=Featured Monument: Major-General Abner Doubleday Monument |website=Gettysburg Sculptures |access-date=2019-06-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> There is a {{convert|7|ft|m|adj=on}} obelisk monument at [[Arlington National Cemetery]] where he is buried.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/Cglkb3VibGVkYXkSBWFibmVy/ |title=Burial Detail: Doubleday, Abner|website=ANC Explorer}}<!-- This is the official ANC website --></ref>

[[Doubleday Field]] is a 9,791-seat baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in [[Cooperstown, New York]], near the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Cooperstown Connection: Doubleday Field, A Diamond in the Pasture | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051214030357/http://baseballhalloffame.org/news/2005/050906.htm | archive-date=2005-12-14 | access-date=2012-05-07| url=http://baseballhalloffame.org/news/2005/050906.htm |df=dmy-all |publisher=National Baseball Hall of Fame}}</ref> It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an [[exhibition game]] between two [[Major League Baseball|major league]] teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=January 29, 2008 |title=Baseball Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown will end after this year |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/wires/01/29/2010.ap.bbo.hall.of.fame.game.0131/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202075649/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/mlb/wires/01/29/2010.ap.bbo.hall.of.fame.game.0131/ |archive-date=February 2, 2008 |magazine=Sports Illustrated|agency=Associated Press}}</ref>  It has hosted the Hall of Fame Classic since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History of Doubleday Field|url=https://baseballhall.org/about-the-hall/history/history-of-doubleday-field|access-date=2021-08-31|website=Baseball Hall of Fame|language=en}}</ref>

The [[Auburn Doubledays]] are a [[collegiate summer baseball]] team based in Doubleday's hometown of [[Auburn, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?sid=t458&ymd=20130212&content_id=41565628&vkey=team1 |title=Auburn Baseball History |website=Auburn Doubledays |publisher=Minor League Baseball |df=mdy-all |access-date=2019-06-07}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Doubleday Field at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where the [[Army Black Knights]] play at [[Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field|Johnson Stadium]], is named in Doubleday's honor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://goarmywestpoint.com/sports/2015/3/6/GEN_20140101122.aspx?id=122 |title=Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field |website=Army West Point |df=mdy-all |access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref>

The Abner Doubleday Little League and Babe Ruth Fields in Ballston Spa, New York, the town of his birth. The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street.

A sign at the [[Doubleday Hill Monument]], erected in [[Williamsport, Maryland]], to commemorate Doubleday's occupation of a hill there during the Civil War, claims he invented the game in 1835.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mdhistoricdistrict.com/doubleday-hill/ |title=Doubleday Hill |website=Maryland Historic District |df=mdy-all |access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref>

Mendham Borough and Mendham Township, New Jersey has held a municipal holiday known as "Abner Doubleday Day" for numerous years in the General's honor<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/life/good-life/things-we-love/2016/02/18/1-thing-we-love-morris-baseball-spring-training/80496684/ |title=1 Thing We Love About Morris: Baseball spring training |date=2016-02-18 |work=Morristown Daily Record |access-date=2019-06-07 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and commissioned a plaque near the site of his home in the borough in 1998, even though the borough was known as Mendham Township back then.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barthel |first=Thomas |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/646066586 |title=Abner Doubleday : a Civil War biography |date=2010 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-0-7864-5616-1 |location=Jefferson, N.C. |oclc=646066586}}</ref>

In 2004, the Abner Doubleday Society erected a monument to Doubleday in Iron Spring Park, Ballston Spa, near his birthplace.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.saratogian.com/news/abner-doubleday-s-presence-still-felt-in-ballston-spa/article_436ebb5f-22cf-5aa6-81ef-ac18f45bb69a.html |title=Abner Doubleday's presence still felt in Ballston Spa |last=Post |first=Paul |date=2011-04-09 |work=The Saratogian |access-date=2019-06-07 |df=mdy-all |archive-date=June 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607212717/https://www.saratogian.com/news/abner-doubleday-s-presence-still-felt-in-ballston-spa/article_436ebb5f-22cf-5aa6-81ef-ac18f45bb69a.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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