A special commission created by baseball executive Albert Spalding determined in 1908 that Doubleday invented the game, pushing back against claims made by British sportswriter Henry Chadwick ...

“But neither our wives, our sisters, our daughters, nor our sweethearts,” Albert G. Spalding, pioneering baseball player, ...

In the late 1800s, Albert Spalding was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Stockings and then the Chicago White Stockings, where he also served as a manager, president and part-owner.

“And having baseball to rival and replace cricket was an important step in that process.” The Boston Red Stockings in 1874. (Albert Spalding is in the top row, second from the left.) ...

The boy’s name was Albert G. Spalding ... s Chicago team which first appeared in regulation baseball uniforms. It was Spalding’s company which standardized early baseballs and developed ...

The book eventually evolved into Spalding’s Official Baseball Guide ... 2018 — Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols got his 3,000th hit, reaching the mark with a broken-bat single in ...