thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

The edited transcript of " Spalding Gray's Last Interview " has been published in New England Theatre Journal.

Among independent publications, in 2010 the Intercollegiate Studies Institute published We Still Hold These Truths by director of American Studies Matthew Spalding.

Additionally, later in 1912, Reverend Franklin S. Spalding sent copies of the three facsimiles to eight Egyptologists and semitists soliciting their interpretation of the facsimiles, the results of which were published in Spalding's work Joseph Smith, Jr. As a Translator.

A complete German translation, edited by Dr Moritz Posselt ( Tagebuch des Generals Patrick Gordon ) was published, the first volume at Moscow in 1849, the second at St Petersburg in 1851, and the third at St Petersburg in 1853 ; and Passages from the Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries ( 1635 – 1699 ), was printed, under the editorship of Joseph Robertson, for the Spalding Club, at Aberdeen, Scotland, 1859.

In that year he published a Letter on Shakespeare's Authorship of the two Noble Kinsmen ( reprinted for the New Shakspere Society in 1876 ), which attracted the notice of Jeffrey, who invited Spalding to contribute to the Edinburgh Review.

In 1924 Spalding published the first volume of Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East.

Spalding published three additional volumes before his death in 1953.

Volumes 5 and 6 were published by DeVorss & Co posthumously from various articles that Spalding had written.

This was published by the Spalding Club in 1869.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball 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 was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Spalding won 47 games and Barnes led the league in hitting at. 429 as Chicago won the first ever National League pennant, which at the time was the game's top prize.

Chadwick edited The Beadle Baseball Player, the first baseball guide on public sale, as well as the Spalding and Reach annual guides for a number of years and in this capacity promoted the game and influenced the then-infant discipline of sports journalism.

The first official ball used in volleyball is disputed ; some sources say that Spalding created the first official ball in 1896, while others claim it was created in 1900.

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

The party included the wives of the two men, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Hart Spalding, who became the first European-American women to cross the Rocky Mountains.

It was first reported in domestic chickens, by the 19th-century amateur biologist Douglas Spalding.

Spalding has a popular, reasonably-sized, market every Tuesday and Saturday and on the first Saturday in every month a Farmers ' Market.

On 7 October 1979, the first barcode was used in the UK at Key Markets in Spalding.

Douglas Alexander Spalding was called the " first experimental biologist ," and worked mostly with birds ; studying instinct, imprinting, and visual and auditory development.

In the early 1930s Jones worked with A. G. Spalding & Co. to develop the first set of matched steel-shafted clubs ; the clubs sold very well and are still considered among the best-designed sets ever made.

In July 1836, Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spalding were the first white pioneer women to cross South Pass.

In 1853 Louisville Bishop Martin Spalding invited the Xaverian brothers to open a school in his diocese, and in 1854 the first colony of brothers moved to the United States.

* Spalding ( England ) has an annual Tulip Parade that takes place on the first Saturday in May, and is a major tourist attraction, comprising a procession of floats on various themes, each decorated with tulip petals, a by-product of the bulb industry.

During this time Bromsgrove also won the Conference League Cup ( or " Spalding Cup " at the time ) two years in a row during the 1994 – 95 and 1995 – 96 seasons, they were the first team in the competitions history to win it back to back.

The Owen-Spalding route is named for the climbers who claim to have made the first: William Owen, Franklin Spalding, Frank Peterson, and John Shive.

Eliza Hart Spalding, part of the Whitman Mission, was its first teacher.

Henry Spalding, and their wives crossed the Rockies, Eliza Hart Spalding and Narcissa Whitman being the first white American women in Oregon Country.

Rawlings became the official supplier to the majors players in, succeeding Spalding, which had supplied the official ball for a century.

That painting shows either Mount Spalding or Mount Evans ( it is ambiguous ) from the Chicago Lakes, 3 miles ( 5 km ) north-northwest, but Bierstadt and his guide William Byers climbed onward to the summit of either Evans or Spalding ( the account is ambiguous ).

* Tim Spalding, " The Oracle of Delphi and ancient oracles " An annotated guide.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

Playing to the pitcher's desire to return to his Midwestern roots and challenging Spalding's integrity, Hulbert convinced Spalding to sign a contract to play for the White Stockings ( now known as the Chicago Cubs ) in 1876.

Of course, Spalding had an ulterior motive for doing so.

In 1876, Spalding won 47 games as the prime pitchers for the Chicago White Stockings, who captured the National League's inaugural pennant by a wide margin.

In 1905, after Henry Chadwick wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cricket and rounders, Spalding called for a commission to find out the real source of baseball.

Another young bassist of note is Esperanza Spalding ( born 1984 ) who, at 27 years of age, already won a Grammy for Best New Artist.

In the game A. G. Spalding was pitcher and Ross Barnes shortstop for the Forest City nine ; these two afterwards becoming famous as star players of the Boston professional team of the early seventies.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

Meanwhile E / 16, led by Second Lieutenant John M. Spalding, turned westward along the top of the bluffs, engaging in a two hour battle for WN-64.

Clara Spalding Brown, the wife of mining engineer Theodore Brown, was a correspondent for the San Diego Union and other California newspapers.

Sometime around noon on the 22nd, Major Spalding left the station for Helpmekaar to ascertain the whereabouts of Rainforth's G Company, which was now overdue.

The County is named for former United States representative and senator Thomas Spalding.

Her mark, di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi The Countess Godiva, have desired this for a long time, appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding.

She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave and also composed the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box.

In reference to Presence and Resistance by Philip Auslander, a performance art critic, Sally Banes writes “… by the end of the 1980s, performance art had become so widely known that it no longer needed to be defined ; mass culture, especially television, had come to supply both structure and subject matter for much performance art ; and several performance artists, including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Willem Dafoe, and Ann Magnuson, had indeed become crossover artists in mainstream entertainment .”

However, after the floods of 1947, new works such as the Coronation Channel were constructed to control flooding in Spalding and the washes are no longer used solely as pasture, but may be used for arable farming.

Beyond the river banks, much of the fertile arable land is composed of marine silt, which suits the bulb-growing for which Spalding is famous.

The Adventurers asked Thomas Tofield for a second opinion, who suggested a shorter cut from Spalding to Fosdyke.

Towards the end of the Second World War, E. G. Taverner, the chief engineer for the Drainage Board, devised a plan to relieve flooding in Spalding by creating a bypass channel, and building the Greatford Cut to divert the waters of the West Glen river into the Welland upstream of Market Deeping.

Coal for Spalding gasworks arrived by boat until the early 1900s, and the last regular trade was the carriage of corn, hay and straw from Spalding to Fosdyke, where the cargo was transferred to larger ships.

* Spalding, a market town, administrative centre of South Holland, and famed for its annual Flower Parade ;

The re-routing was devised by E. G. Taverner, the chief engineer for the Welland and Deepings Drainage Board, towards the end of the Second World War, and was part of a much larger project which involved the digging of the Coronation Channel, a flood relief channel to divert the Welland around the south-eastern edge of Spalding, and the construction of Fulney lock, to exclude tidal water from the upper Welland.