A. G. Spalding was a key figure in the professionalization and
commercialization of American sports. Co-founder of baseball's
National League, owner of the Chicago White Stockings (later the
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.
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 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.
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