Nelson Doubleday joins players in saying that baseball's accounting and claimed losses are a sham.
Familiar names like Joe Lewis, Justice Earl Warren, Abner Doubleday, medal of honor winner Audie Murphy.
Michael Doubleday said the defense secretary did not overrule West's initial decision to deny the burial.
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Nantucket's luminaries are names straight out of the Social Register: Doubleday, Beinecke, Heinz, Gamble and Mellon.
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She noted Doubleday decided to publish quickly in part to minimize the chance that it would leak on the Web.
The Mets franchise as we have known it since Nelson Doubleday and Wilpon bought the team in 1986, is dead.
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In 1986, Wilpon and Katz and Doubleday became even partners, in a deal that valued the team at a hundred million.
Wilpon is in the process of buying out Doubleday under the provisions of an agreement they made when they became co-owners in 1986.
Doubleday received Mr. Brown's manuscript in early January and quickly decided on a May publication date, said Suzanne Herz, a senior vice president at Doubleday.
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According to Doubleday, he was laboring under a conflict of interest since he is also a consultant to Major League Baseball--that is, to the other owners.
"I've included all sorts of little things - his Vickers machine gun, bombed and rendered useless, but the man, the spirit of the man survives, " said Mr Doubleday.
Doubleday did not immediately return a call today seeking comment.
In 1939, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York, on the 100th anniversary of the day Abner Doubleday supposedly invented the sport.
Mr Doubleday has made a preliminary model of how the sculpture will look, and is now making a clay model using about two tonnes of clay supported by a steel structure.
Mr. Wilpon steadily increased the level of debt he placed against the team since he took full control of the franchise in 2002 by buying out his longtime partner, Nelson Doubleday.
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Mr Doubleday said: "I think the enormity of the sacrifice and the brutality of WWI shouldn't be allowed to just slip away from the consciousness of the population as a whole, " he said.
"MLB orchestrated a sham process that not only mistreated Doubleday and betrayed his trust, it actively favored Wilpon and engineered a result that served MLB's other and conflicting interests, " Doubleday said in the lawsuit.
"Secretary West made the final decision, " Doubleday said.
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He borrowed heavily to buy out Nelson Doubleday, even promising his former partner tens of millions of dollars if the Mets ever moved into a new ballpark (they did, with Citi Field opening in 2009).
Wilpon, who gradually asserted more control during the 1990s before buying out Doubleday in 2002 and installing his son Jeff as chief operating officer, has lost an undisclosed chunk of his personal fortune to scammer Bernie Madoff.
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"He would occasionally take a suggestion or two of mine, but he didn't seem to find much use for editors, " said Gerald Howard, an executive editor at publishing house Doubleday who edited Mr. Vidal for more than a decade.
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Drafted No. 1 overall in 1980 by new Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday, Strawberry, with his 6-foot-6-inch frame, power swing and cocksure attitude, became the cornerstone of a talent foundation that also included Dwight Gooden and Lenny Dykstra.
Yesterday, Doubleday filed a lawsuit in which he accused baseball commissioner Bud Selig of conspiring with an accountant who is also a consultant to Major League Baseball (MLB) to place an "artificially" low price on the team by manufacturing "phantom operating losses" in MLB's books.
If you ask Fred Wilpon and Nelson Doubleday , you will get wildly different answers--and that is because Doubleday is selling his half of the team to Wilpon at a price that is to be set not through an auction, but via appraisal and mediation.
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