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    Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball...
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    Spalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company. It was founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago in 1876 as a baseball manufacturer, and is...
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    Albert Spalding (August 15, 1888 – May 26, 1953) was an internationally recognized American violinist and composer. Spalding was born in Chicago, Illinois...
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    Robison (7), Cleveland Spiders owner Anson first met Albert Spalding while both were players; Spalding was a pitcher for the Rockford Forest Citys, Anson...
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    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...
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    spring training in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1886. President Albert Spalding (founder of Spalding Sporting Goods) and player/manager Cap Anson brought their...
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    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...
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  • executives of the Chicago Cubs. Albert Spalding Jim Hart Charles Murphy Charles Phelps Taft Charles Weeghman Albert Lasker William Wrigley, Jr. Philip...
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    an apparent series championship, three games to two, Chicago owner Albert Spalding overruled his manager and declared that he wanted the forfeit counted...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • sporting goods manufacturer Albert Spalding (violinist) (1888–1953), American composer and concert violinist Al Spalding (naval architect) (1932–2022)...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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 –...
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    defeated Argentina by one point. In 1888, American Baseball administrator Albert Spalding brought the Chicago team and an additional composite team called the...
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  • of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs. Chicago, A. G. Spalding 1877. Dewey, Donald & Acocella, Nicholas. The Ball Clubs, p. 28. HarperPerennial...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    baseman and outfielder Albert Spalding, originally skeptical of glove use, influenced more infielders to begin using gloves. Spalding later founded the sporting...
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  •  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"...
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  • 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...
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    Souvenir of Moscow – Russian Airs (Wieniawski) Classical & Operatic Albert Spalding, vin. 28164 Kathlean Mavourmean Thomas Chalmers 28165 O Promise Me...
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    and businessman Albert Spalding (1888–1953), American violinist and composer Albert Späni (born 1927), Swiss sports shooter Albert Spanswick (1919–1983)...
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  • against Albert Spalding and his Spalding sporting goods company for infringement upon Thayer's patent rights to the catching mask goes to trial. Spalding will...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Athletics' final season. Chicago's William Hulbert, assisted by player Albert Spalding and sportswriter Lewis Meacham, moved at the same time to organize...
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  • Dawson 1990 – Ryne Sandberg 2000 – Sammy Sosa 2002 – Sammy Sosa 1876 – Albert Spalding 1881 – Larry Corcoran 1885 – John Clarkson 1887 – John Clarkson 1890...
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    Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2009. "Al Spalding". retrosheet.org. Retrosheet, Inc. Retrieved December 25, 2009. "The 1876...
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