Abner Doubleday Story Is True. And It’s Ours The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta, June 2014 During Stalin’s show trials – old-line Bolsheviks were brought to the dock in Moscow in 1937-38, accused of treason – a wide-eyed reporter for a Western news agency asked a hardened oldtimer, A.T. Cholerton of the London-based Daily Telegraph: Are the accusations true? As the story goes, Cholerton replied: Yes. Everything is true, except the facts. Why does this bring the Abner Doubleday story to mind…