Feb 3, 2023
Perhaps no one shaped the public perception of baseball as America's pastime more than Albert Goodwill Spalding. Pitcher, team executive, owner, tycoon, politician and pseudo-historian, there wasn't anything on which Spalding tried to leave his mark. That mark is still visible in many ways today, including on the balls themselves used by Major League Baseball, manufactured by his namesake company, which was founded 147 years ago this week. Mike and Bill look back in awe at everything Spalding managed to accomplish, for better or for worse, in his globe-spanning life.
Plus, happy birthday to Wilson Redus and Bob Ferguson!