North Americans invented basketball, baseball, and football and dominate them by divine right.

A green floor cloth rises up into a mound and sinks; cave men invent baseball while throwing a rock against a branch.

Are You the one responsible for inventing football and baseball and boxing?

Before going, they had read a news article about the Russians insisting they had invented baseball.

Joe goes back in time to see if Abner Doubleday really invented baseball.

The late Civil War hero "never knew that he had invented baseball.

"You did not so invent baseball."

Doubleday is often mistakenly credited with inventing baseball, although he never made such a claim, and there is no evidence to support it.

To his credit, Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball.

Doubleday himself made no mention of having invented baseball before his 1893 death.