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...opening in 1911 until 1953, the last ten years as chief of its vast main reading room; in Hartford, Conn. The author of monographs and a book on the history of ball games, Ball, Bat and Bishop (1947), he was an early and authoritative debunker of the myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, contending that the origins of the U.S. national sport go back many centuries and that the game had been played in recognizable form since the 18th century. The Official Encyclopedia of Baseball dropped Doubleday and embraced Henderson's views...
...nominate a woman. She could be D.C. Circuit Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 51, a former Columbia law professor who successfully argued several sex-discrimination cases before the high court, or Patricia Wald, 56, another liberal on the D.C. Circuit. Mondale might also choose an old friend, D.C. Circuit Judge Abner Mikva, 58, a liberal activist and former Congressman...
...this nation's political structure to a segment of the population to which it has traditionally been closed. We further contend that any analysis that attempts to reverse this order is hopelessly skewed and hopelessly racist. Frederick C. Meten '85 Stephen M. Tayler '84 Alan R. Jackson '84 Abner A. Masson '85 Mark E. Brown...
When the Hall of Fame season collides with the dog days of a baseball August, the feeling is emphasized. Two weeks ago in Cooperstown, N.Y., a buckskin village celebrated as the leafy laboratory of Abner Doubleday, Baltimore and Detroit Third Basemen Brooks Robinson and George Kell, San Francisco Pitcher Juan Marichal and Dodger Manager Walter Alston went into the Hall. Just 149 players are enshrined, only 15 having been beckoned on the first wave of the Baseball Writers' Association. (Ballots are cast five years after a player retires and for up to 15 years after that until he receives...
...first act of opposition to the games came on March 19 when Abner "Woody" Holton, a graduate student, cut the electric cords to the games in what he called an "act of protest against what the machines represent...