though the borough was known as Mendham Township back then. In 2004, the Abner Doubleday Society erected a monument to Doubleday in Iron Spring Park, Ballston Spa, near his birthplace. In popular culture In the movie The Ridiculous 6, Doubleday is portrayed by John Turturro. The character organizes the first game of baseball between the six main characters and a group of Chinese immigrants, creating the rules as he goes, primarily to allow him to win. In the 23rd episode of the anime Samurai Champloo, titled "Baseball Blues", Doubleday and Alexander Cartwright are featured as American naval officers who engage the main characters and local Japanese people into a baseball game, which the Americans lose. In the mini-series North and South, George Hazzard is seen watching a primitive form of baseball with a wounded Orry Main, while referring to the game being invented by Doubleday, a fellow West Point cadet. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) William Webb Ellis, sometimes apocryphally credited with inventing rugby football Notes References Gomes, Michael. "Abner Doubleday and Theosophy in America: 1879–1884". Sunrise, April/May 1991. "Doubleday, Abner" in The Handbook of Texas. Further reading Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. . External links Defense of Madame Blavatsky Baseball Hall of Fame Photo of Abner Doubleday and wife Mary, taken by Mathew Brady, owned by University of Michigan Museum of Art Ulysses Freeman Doubleday – McLean County Museum of History 1819 births 1893 deaths American military personnel of the Mexican–American War American people of English descent Burials at Arlington National Cemetery History of baseball People from Auburn, New York People from Ballston Spa, New York People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Union Army generals United States Military Academy alumni Writers from New York (state) New York (state) Republicans American Theosophists People from Mendham Township, New Jersey