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This day in baseball: The founding of Spalding sporting goods

Posted: February 3, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: 19th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

Spending $800 to start, former baseball player Albert Spalding founded a sporting goods company on February 3, 1886.  Spalding became the manufacturer of the first official baseball, and would also become the first manufacturer of the official tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football.

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