Albert Spalding
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Albert Spalding on a 1871 Boston Red Stockings baseball card.
Albert Goodwill Spalding （September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915） was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company.
He was born and raised in Byron, Illinois yet graduated from Rockford Central High School in Rockford, Illinois.
He played major league baseball between 1871 and 1878.
Spalding set a trend when he started wearing a baseball glove.
After his retirement as a player, Spalding remained active with the Chicago White Stockings as president and part-owner.
In the 1880s, he took players on the first world tour of baseball.
With William Hulbert, Spalding organized the National League.
He later called for the commission that investigated the origins of baseball and credited Abner Doubleday with creating the game.
He also wrote the first set of official baseball rules.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.
After pitching his team to a 26–2 victory over a local men's amateur team （the Mercantiles）, he was approached at the age of 15 by the Rockford Forest Citys, for whom he played for five years.
Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players （which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA） in 1871,
Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings （precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves） and ...