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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Albert Goodwill Spalding Biography Albert Goodwill Spalding Image SPALDING,
Albert Goodwill (1850-1915). An American merchant, born at Byron, Ill. In
1871 he joined the Boston Club of baseball players and pitched for them until
1875. After 1876 he was a member of the Chicago Club, serving successively as
manager, secretary, and president of the club until 1891. In 1876 he established
and became president of A. G. Spalding & Bros., dealers in sporting goods,
and later organized also a manufacturing branch of the firm, known as the
Spalding Manufacturing Company, of which he also became president. These
enterprises were very successful. After 1900 Spalding lived at Point Loma, Cal.,
as a member of Mrs. Katherine Tingley's (q.v.) Raja Yoga Theosophical colony. In
1910, at the primaries, he won the Democratic nomination for United States
Senator, but was not elected. He wrote America's
National Game (1911). |