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Spalding, A. G. (Albert Goodwill)
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Albert was born on September 2, 1850 on a farm in Byron, Ogle County, Illinois, United States, the son of James Lawrence and Harriet Irene (Goodwill) Wright Spalding and a descendant of Edward Spalding who became a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640.
He was educated in the public schools of Byron and Rockford, Illinois, and at the Rockford Commercial College. His first employment was as a grocer's clerk. A crippled soldier, it is said, invalided out of the Civil War, taught the boys of Rockford how to play baseball and young Spalding became an apt pupil.
At the age of seventeen his skill as a pitcher and batsman was such that he became an outstanding player with the Forest City team of Rockford. Largely through the prowess of Spalding and Ross Barnes, who also later became a National League player, this team attained a wide reputation. After the establisment of professional baseball, Spalding joined in 1871 the Boston team managed by Harry Wright.
In 1876 William A. Hulbert of Chicago, with Spalding as aid and adviser, formed the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, and Spalding became pitcher, captain, and manager of the Chicago team.
In March of the same year he organized, with his brother James, a business firm to manufacture and sell baseball equipment and other sporting goods, under the name A. G. Spalding & Brother. Two years later his brother-in-law, William T. Brown, joined them and the firm name became A. G. Spalding & Brothers.
In time the concern developed into the largest and most successful of its kind in the United States, with a capitalization in 1932 of $6, 000, 000. Spalding maintained a connection with the Chicago Club for many years, however. Upon the death of William A. Hulbert in 1882 he became its president and continued as such until 1891, when he felt it necessary to give all his time to his sporting-goods business.
As early as 1874 he made the arrangements for a tour of England and Ireland by two baseball teams, in an endeavor to impress the good points of the game on the followers of cricket and football.
Again, in 1888-89, he organized and took personal charge of a trip around the world made by his Chicago team and another group known as the All-American players. They gave exhibitions of baseball in Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, and the British Isles.
In Egypt a game was played on the sands near the pyramids. In these early days of professional baseball it was necessary to stamp out rowdyism and eliminate professional gamblers who sought to corrupt teams and players for their own ends.
From 1878 to 1880 inclusive he edited Spalding's Official Baseball Guide, and in 1911 published America's National Game, a comprehensive history of baseball. He spent the last fifteen years of his life as a resident of Point Loma, California, and it was there that he died of heart failure, at the age of sixty-five.
Albert Goodwill Spalding was pitcher and captain until 1875 and during that time the team won the championships of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players from 1872 to 1875, inclusive. He also was a head of the Chicago Club, was chosen as director of the section of sports for the United States at the Olympic Games of 1900. For his work, he later received from France the rosette of the Legion of Honor. A powerful and colorful figure, he loomed large in the field of sports for many years and, through his enthusiasm, his energy, and his keenness of mind contributed largely to the success of baseball and to the spread of many other sports. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1939, as one of the first inductees from the 19th century at that summer's opening ceremonies.
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He was a great believer in baseball as a beneficial sport as well as an exciting public spectacle. As a player and later as a club manager, president, and league official, Spalding was a forceful leader in the fight for honest play, honest players, and a wholesome and respectable atmosphere around the ball parks.
Spalding had been a prominent member of the Theosophical Society under William Quan Judge
He was a big fellow physically, with a dominating personality, and a genius for organizing and directing.
His first wife, whom he married November 18, 1875, was Sarah Josephine Keith and by her he had one son; she died in 1899 and in 1900 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill Mayer, who survived him.
