Billy Quan, age 12, of Hattiesburg, Miss., for his question:

WHAT DID ABNER DOUBLEDAY DO?

A commission organized by major league baseball officials in 1906 established that a United States Army officer named Abner Doubleday was the man who invented baseball in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839.

And to honor Doubleday, Cooperstown residents established the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in town and they named their baseball park Doubleday Field.

Today historians tell us that Doubleday most likely had little if anything to do with the invention of baseball. They say the sport most likely developed from an English game called rounders.

But Doubleday still gets the honors. He, by the way, fought heroically ,`,at the Battle of Gettysburg and also commanded the troops at Fort Sumter that fired the first shots by the North in the Civil War.