When it comes to Abner Doubleday's role in the creation of baseball the evidence is clear: he had none. And yet his name is as synonymous with "baseball" as hot dogs and shortstops due entirely to the Mills Commission a group formed in the early 1900s with a goal of proving the origin of the sport in the US. Aimed at settling a dispute over whether or not baseball had a British origin (popular sentiment rejecting that theory) Cubs president Albert Spalding instructed the Mills commission to determine whether baseball was of British or American descent. The "Doubleday Myth " stating that Union officer Abner Doubleday created baseball in Cooperstown NY is 1839 was published in 1905 as a result of a claim made by then mining engineer Abner Graves. Graves' recollection became the primary driver for the Mills Commission giving Doubleday credit for inventing baseball claiming the game was American in origin. Though largely disproven later the myth continues to hold popular support (including that of former baseball commissioner Bud Selig) and Doubleday is still considered by many to be the "Father of Baseball." Presented here is a Carte de Viste of Doubleday dating to 1865 the portrait part of famed Civil War photographer Matthew Brady's archive. Brady the best-known US photographer of the 19th Century took thousands of photos that passed to E & HT Anthony of New York in default of payment for photographic supplies in the 1870s. This CdV published by E & HT Anthony is likely one of those images. The CdV is the finest example we have ever seen remarkably well-preserved with no toning and very little sign of wear. Doubleday's name has been written at the bottom border and a bottom-right corner ding drops the condition just enough to prevent us from using some word like "miraculous" to describe its condition. Still pretty miraculous.