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Spalding and retired
After back-to-back pennants in 1880 and ' 81, Hulbert died, and Spalding, who had retired to start Spalding sporting goods, assumed ownership of the club.

Spalding and from
The owners of these western clubs accompanied Hulbert and Spalding to New York where they secretly met with owners from New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, and Boston.
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.
: A collection of many smaller folk groups under Mercian control from the 7th century, including the Spaldingas around Spalding, the Bilmingas and Wideringas near Stamford, the North Gyrwe and South Gyrwe near Peterborough, the West Wixna, East Wixna, West Wille and East Wille near Ely, the Sweordora, Hurstingas and Gifle near Bedford, the Hicce around Hitchin, the Cilternsæte in the Chilterns and the Feppingas near Thame ( approx.
Category: People from Spalding County, Georgia
According to contemporary reports, John travelled from Spalding in Lincolnshire to Bishop's Lynn, in Norfolk, was taken ill and decided to return.
* Arrian, Events after Alexander ( from Photius ' Bibliotheca ) translated by John Rooke, edited by Tim Spalding
* Jack Flynt-lawyer and U. S. Congressman from Spalding County ( born in Griffin )
Of this total, the below Spalding are tidal, and have sea walls to protect the adjacent land from flooding, while are fresh water, but run through low-lying land, and are therefore embanked.
The work included making the Welland deeper and wider from Deeping St James to its outfall beyond Spalding, and the construction of side drains.
These included a drain running from Pode Hole to below Spalding, which is still known as Vernatt's Drain, after one of the adventurers called Sir Philibert Vernatti.
Spalding had been a port from before any of the river improvements were made.
In April 1729, the Deeping Fen Adventurers received a letter from Captain John Perry, expressing the opinion that the only way to improve the drainage was to improve the river outfalls, and proposing the construction of scouring sluices on the river at Spalding, on Vernatt's drain at its outfall, and on the River Glen at Surfleet.
The Adventurers asked Thomas Tofield for a second opinion, who suggested a shorter cut from Spalding to Fosdyke.
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.
The area was enclosed by a line from Spalding, along the River Welland to Market Deeping, then along the Car Dyke to Dowsby and across the fens to the Welland.
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.
In 1792, Thomas Hawkes wrote about trade in timber, which was carried from Bourne to Spalding, and there was a boat which carried passengers to the market at Spalding on Tuesdays, but he comments that the service was erratic, as there was often too little or too much water for the vessels to operate.
A railway from Boston to Spalding opened in 1848, while the line from Spalding opened to Bourne in 1866 and on to Sleaford in 1872.
The 1996 Steven Soderbergh film Gray's Anatomy, featuring monologuist Spalding Gray, also takes its name from the title of the book, as does Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings, a 2009 book by British political philosopher John N. Gray.

Spalding and playing
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.
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 ".
Although some tracks build on the keyboard playing of Suffering from the previous album, it's the guitar work of Spalding that truly becomes prominent, creating a geared, fast-paced album, aside from synth-heavy instrumental " It Seems So Far Away " and epic album closer " At The End Of It All ".

Spalding and baseball
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.
thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.
Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.
Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.
Spalding published the first official rules guide for baseball.
Spalding also founded the Baseball Guide, which at the time was the most widely-read baseball publication.
In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.
After three years of searching, on December 30, 1907, Spalding received a letter that ( erroneously ) declared baseball to be the invention of Abner Doubleday.
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.
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.
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But baseball executive Albert Spalding disagreed.
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.
Despite a friendship with Albert Spalding, Chadwick was scornful of the attempts to have Abner Doubleday declared the inventor of baseball.
* 1850 – Albert Spalding, American baseball player, manager, and businessman, co-founder of the Spalding Sporting Goods Company ( d. 1915 )
* September 9 – Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer ( b. 1850 )
Doubleday's invention of baseball was the finding of a panel appointed by Albert Spalding, a former star pitcher and club executive, who had become the leading American sporting goods entrepreneur and sports publisher.
Spalding later founded the sporting goods company Spalding, which still manufactures baseball gloves along with other sports equipment.

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