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Co-founder of baseball's National League, owner of the Chicago White Stockings later Cubs , and founder of a sporting goods business that made him a millionaire, Spalding not only willed baseball to be our national pastime but also contributed to making sport a significant part of American life.
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This biography captures the zest, flamboyance, and creativity of Albert Goodwell Spalding, a man of insatiable ego, a showman and entrepreneur, whose life illuminated the hopes and fears of 19th-century Americans. It is also a vivid evocation of the vanished world of 19th-century baseball, recreating a time when it was transformed from a game played on unkempt fields to modern style.
Spalding joins an impressive body of historical writing It will long endure as the standard work on Spalding.
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A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball - Peter Levine - Oxford University Press
Born in near Rockford, Illinois, he grew up during the years in which organized baseball achieved its initial popularity, both as a pastime and as a spectator sport. Spalding proved to be a talented player. Spalding was thus involved in the transformation of baseball from a game of gentlemen athletes into a business and a professional sport, After a successful playing career in Boston and with the Chicago White Stockings, he became manager of the latter, ending his playing days when he was only twenty-seven years old.
In the meantime, he gained a fortune from another source.
A sporting goods store he founded in with his brother Walter grew rapidly through efficient management into a multi-million dollar operation for the manufacture and distribution of practically every type of sporting equipment imaginable. According to Levine, Spalding was never a true believer in theosophist doctrines, as was his wife, but he found the cultured pleasantries of the Tingley community an agreeable environment in which to spend these years.
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