Very Rare Albert G. Spalding Signed "America's National Game" Book. Inscribed "With my compliments". First edition, presentation copy, of this essential history of baseball. Spalding transformed baseball "from its dual origins as either a gentlemen's club or a rowdy working-class pastime into a professional sport… newspaper obituaries across the nation recognized Spalding, who had been a part of nearly every major event in baseball's history, as the father of what was now considered to be 'America's game". During his career, Spalding also established a worldwide sporting goods empire & Spalding's Official National League Base Ball Guide. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1939. LOA from Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators.

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