Albert Spalding was a man who led baseball into a refined era, and later created a sporting goods company, changing sports as we know it through both the quality of the sporting goods, and of the people involved. Mr. Spalding wiped out baseball playing opportunities for alcoholics and gamblers for the sake of the game’s much needed change
By doing this, Spalding had transformed the game of baseball into one suitable for all ages to watch, without profanity and unnecessary aggression. Thereafter, he then resigned from his position as president of the White Stockings to pursue his baseball sporting good business with his brothers under the company name “A.G. Spalding & Brothers”. Their company had later designed its very first basketball …show more content…
But besides the change of rules, Spalding had additionally impacted the society due to his resignation from political aspects of Baseball in honor and glory instead of in ashes, while impacting the overall society by producing baseball sporting goods, reaching areas all over the U.S. like a tidal flood, which later reached individuals worldwide. The Basketball Society on the other hand, had been heavily impacted by Spalding’s innovative new basketball from the performance and specialization standpoint. He had introduced an entirely different ball to the society, one that was purposely made to be dribbled by the hands, not the feet. In conclusion, Mr. Spalding had been a man of great change through multiple perspectives, one who led baseball into a refined era, who changed sports as we know it through both the quality of the sporting goods, and of the people involved. And although Spalding had died in 1915, unable to fully witness the outcome of his existence, his legacy will always move forward in his name;