It is Spalding Baseball Day on September 2. It is a day celebrated on the birthday of Albert Goodwill Spalding. Spalding was an American pitcher, manager, and baseball executive from Byron Illinois that co-founded the A.G. Spalding & Brothers sporting goods company. In 1877, he set the trend of wearing a baseball glove. Between 1871 and 1878, Spalding played many major league baseball matches. He was a highly successful player with a very high win rate as both a pitcher and a hitter. Even after retirement, Spalding was active in management. He wrote the first set of official baseball rules.
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