DOUBLEDAY


Meaning of DOUBLEDAY in English

(1819–93)

a US general in the American Civil War . He was in Fort Sumter when it was attacked by the South. According to a story that is probably not true, he invented the game of baseball (in 1839).

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.