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

Spalding published the first official rules guide for 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.

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.

In the following months, Hulbert and Spalding organized the National League by enlisting the four major teams in the East and the three other top teams in what was then considered to be the West.

After three years of searching, on December 30, 1907, Spalding received a letter that ( erroneously ) declared baseball to be the invention of Abner Doubleday.

He was the middle-born of three sons: Rockwell, Jr., Spalding and Channing.

The local cricket team is Spalding Town Cricket Club, who have three teams on a Saturday in the South Lincs and Border Leagues and a Rutland League team and a Friendly XI on a Sunday for 2012.

Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song Dead Skunk ( in the Middle of the Road ) and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding ( the " singing surgeon ") on the American television show, M * A * S * H. His appearances spanned three episodes in its third season ( 1974 – 1975 ), including the episode " Rainbow Bridge ".

Under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte and with its associates and staff, the Group has created nineteen theater pieces, four dances, three radio plays, five video / film works and produced the first eight monologues of Spalding Gray.

This debut album features a stellar cast of additional musicians who have each added their unique musical voice to the record: Visceral bass lines by Duff McKagan ( Guns & Roses, Velvet Revolver ), blistering guitar solos by Mike McCready ( Pearl Jam, Mad Season ), elegant keyboard stylings by Benjamin Anderson, and soulful horn arrangements from Dave Carter ( Trumpet ), Dan Spalding ( Baritone Sax ), and Ed Ulman ( Trombone ).

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.

Just before the commission, in a letter to sportswriter Tim Murnane, Spalding noted, " Our good old American game of baseball must have an American Dad.

Sheriff Royce Spalding has a chance to eat a few bites before deputies come calling.

Spalding had been a port from before any of the river improvements were made.

He never became a Fellow, but was appointed to be the headmaster of Spalding Grammar School before he was 21.

In 1710, he started in practice in Boston, Lincolnshire, becoming a member of Spalding Gentlemen's Society ( founded by his friend Maurice Johnson II ), before returning in 1717 to London.

It continues as a dual-carriageway ( opened in Spring 2008 ) at the next roundabout at Gunthorpe and follows the Car Dyke then meets another roundabout at Werrington before becoming a single carriageway and crosses the Spalding railway between Werrington and Glinton.

There are some crossroads with King Street, then Marriots Mazda garage on the left before a traffic-light controlled roundabout with the A16 Spalding Road ( which it overlaps through Boston ).

Nehemiah King, a resident of Conneaut who knew Spalding when he lived there, felt that the Mormon text resembled the story written by Spalding years before.

* May 2 – Cap Anson, Buck Ewing, Charles " Hoss " Radbourn, Albert Spalding, Charles Comiskey, and Candy Cummings are named to the Hall of Fame by a special committee, just weeks before the Hall opens.

Right before the sale, Chicago writer Happy Palmer quoted Spalding this way, about what he was going to do with Kelly: " Oh, tie him up, I guess, if he really is averse to playing here.

He went on to run a sportswear retail shop in Holbeach, before moving to Spalding where in 1998 he became a Justice of the Peace.

* Ayscoughfee Hall in nearby Spalding contains a fine local museum, with details of the landscape before and after drainage, and with many artifacts showing what life was like in the fens in the past.

In very early censuses of England ( before the 16th century ) the village was sometimes listed as Holme, Spalding Moor, Yorkshire, though there is little evidence of any other towns scattered across the moor at that or any time.

Co-authors Cowdrey, Davis, and Vanick attempt to show that Sidney Rigdon did in fact visit Pittsburgh, the last residence of Spalding, before 1820.

After the viscount's death in 1876, Spalding returned to the continent and remained there until his death the following year.

*' Swimming to Cambodia ' - a song about Spalding Gray's death

* Spalding death and Loveland project

Growth of the New Age movement during the 1970s resulted in a renewal of interest in Spalding, and several New Age figures have claimed tenuous connections to him after his death.

Dispensation is granted, as no blame is attached to William de Spalding, who, feeling deeply the death of his friend, and fearing what might be said by his enemies, has applied to the pope.

The scheme cost £ 723, 000, and the Coronation Channel around Spalding was opened in September 1953.

Baird Thomas Spalding ( 1872 – 1953 ) was an American writer.

* Albert Spalding ( violinist ) ( 1888 – 1953 ), American composer and leading concert violinist

* Baird Thomas Spalding ( 1857 – 1953 ), English-American author