• Thumbnail for Albert Spalding
    Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball...
    23 KB (2,384 words) - 01:56, 28 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Spalding (company)
    Spalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company. It was founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago in 1876 as a baseball manufacturer, and is...
    34 KB (2,669 words) - 13:51, 29 January 2025
  • Albert Spalding (1849–1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and business executive. Albert Spalding may also refer to: Albert Spalding (violinist) (1888–1953)...
    429 bytes (77 words) - 01:59, 28 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Albert Spalding (violinist)
    Albert Spalding (August 15, 1888 – May 26, 1953) was an internationally recognized American violinist and composer. Spalding was born in Chicago, Illinois...
    11 KB (1,247 words) - 22:40, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cap Anson
    Robison (7), Cleveland Spiders owner Anson first met Albert Spalding while both were players; Spalding was a pitcher for the Rockford Forest Citys, Anson...
    43 KB (5,086 words) - 15:22, 19 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Chicago Cubs
    spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1886. President Albert Spalding (founder of Spalding Sporting Goods) and player/manager Cap Anson brought their...
    191 KB (18,636 words) - 20:17, 3 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for America's National Game
    America's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911, that details the early history of the sport of baseball. It is one of the defining...
    1 KB (164 words) - 16:25, 10 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ned Williamson
    1888 baseball season, Albert Spalding organized an around-the-world tour to promote the game of baseball. The two teams Spalding selected were the White...
    18 KB (2,049 words) - 08:39, 20 February 2025
  • Baseball Hall of Fame: Cap Anson Candy Cummings Pud Galvin Jim O'Rourke Albert Spalding Deacon White George Wright Harry Wright George Wright was the first...
    18 KB (1,801 words) - 19:21, 8 April 2025
  • executives of the Chicago Cubs. Albert Spalding Jim Hart Charles Murphy Charles Phelps Taft Charles Weeghman Albert Lasker William Wrigley, Jr. Philip...
    6 KB (234 words) - 23:25, 3 October 2024
  • Chicago White Stockings Chicago, Illinois 23rd Street Grounds 7,000 Albert Spalding Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati, Ohio Avenue Grounds Unknown Charlie Gould...
    12 KB (685 words) - 14:51, 13 March 2025
  • managers. The franchise's first manager was Baseball Hall of Famer Albert Spalding, who helped the White Stockings become the first champions of the newly...
    66 KB (2,550 words) - 08:05, 18 February 2025
  • Stovey – 6 †George Wright – 6 †John Clarkson – 5 Honus Wagner – 5 †Albert Spalding – 4 †Hugh Duffy – 31/2 †Ross Barnes – 3 †Charlie Bennett – 3 Kid Nichols –...
    13 KB (1,019 words) - 02:59, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Adelaide Oval
    defeated Argentina by one point. In 1888, American Baseball administrator Albert Spalding brought the Chicago team and an additional composite team called the...
    107 KB (10,120 words) - 03:45, 6 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of Major League Baseball career wins leaders
    Pettitte 256 44 Red Faber* 254 Jack Morris* 254 46 Carl Hubbell* 253 47 Albert Spalding* 252 48 Bob Gibson* 251 CC Sabathia* 251 50 Vic Willis* 249 51 Bartolo...
    18 KB (356 words) - 18:08, 2 April 2025
  • Throws Team Season Old Hoss Radbourn 60–12 R Providence Grays 1884 Albert Spalding 54–5 R Boston Red Stockings (NA) 1875 John Clarkson 53–16 R Chicago...
    32 KB (777 words) - 00:01, 3 March 2025
  • black Uniques defeat the white Alerts 17–16 in Chicago. July 10 – Albert Spalding is relieved by Harry Wright in the Boston Red Stockings 21–12 victory...
    13 KB (1,318 words) - 17:13, 1 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ross Barnes
    dominant Boston Red Stockings teams of the early 1870s, along with Albert Spalding, Cal McVey, George Wright, Harry Wright, Jim O'Rourke, and Deacon White...
    13 KB (1,480 words) - 11:54, 4 February 2025
  • being played on the streets and vacant lots of Brooklyn in the 1920s. Albert Spalding suggested that four old cat was the immediate ancestor of town ball...
    5 KB (656 words) - 02:12, 20 June 2023
  • homers in consecutive at-bats. July 20 – Harry Wright learns that Albert Spalding, Deacon White, Ross Barnes and Cal McVey will jump to Chicago for the...
    9 KB (755 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for 1876 in baseball
    Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2009. "Al Spalding". retrosheet.org. Retrosheet, Inc. Retrieved December 25, 2009. "The 1876...
    46 KB (1,835 words) - 04:49, 14 February 2025
  • Dannreuther String Quartet, as soloist with the Griller Quartet, violinist Albert Spalding, the Boston Festival Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and the...
    6 KB (758 words) - 23:00, 6 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame
    Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved October 15, 2010. "Hall of Famers: Al Spalding". National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved October 15, 2010...
    149 KB (6,892 words) - 23:32, 21 January 2025
  • provided voice-over readings in Baseball: Adam Arkin Philip Bosco, as Albert Spalding and Ban Johnson Keith Carradine as "Shoeless Joe" Jackson David Caruso...
    21 KB (2,587 words) - 22:46, 19 February 2025
  •  Financed by former player and sporting goods executive Albert Spalding, the tour – composed of Spalding's own Chicago White Stockings and a team of "All-Americans"...
    11 KB (815 words) - 01:36, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of pre-World Series baseball champions
    an apparent series championship, three games to two, Chicago owner Albert Spalding overruled his manager and declared that he wanted the forfeit counted...
    23 KB (828 words) - 22:12, 11 April 2025
  • 1869, p.4] Several players on the teams, including Rockford pitcher Albert Spalding, would later become stars for Chicago. During 1870 the park was rented...
    3 KB (405 words) - 23:20, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of baseball
    sport was created in the U.S. was backed by Chicago Cubs president Albert Spalding and National League president Abraham G. Mills. In 1889, Mills gave...
    59 KB (6,862 words) - 02:01, 4 March 2025
  • of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs. Chicago, A. G. Spalding 1877. Dewey, Donald & Acocella, Nicholas. The Ball Clubs, p. 28. HarperPerennial...
    68 KB (5,502 words) - 01:45, 9 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Baseball glove
    baseman and outfielder Albert Spalding, originally skeptical of glove use, influenced more infielders to begin using gloves. Spalding later founded the sporting...
    16 KB (2,047 words) - 06:17, 12 April 2025