The Spalding World Tour was a baseball tournament financed by the sports company Spalding.[1][2] [3]  The tour began in October 1888 to April 1889, the baseball tour group travelled to Egypt, Italy, France, England, Ireland and the United States.[4]

The purpose of the world tour was to promote the sport of Baseball nationally across the United States and globally.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Spalding's Austrian Baseball Tour". AMERICAN HERITAGE.
  2. ↑ "Spalding's World Tour". The New Yorker.
  3. ↑ "Spalding's World Tour". www.wbur.org.
  4. ↑ "Flashback: Baseball at the feet of the Sphinx? A 1888-89 world tour sent the Chicago White Stockings on a really long road trip". Chicago Tribune.
  5. ↑ "When Baseball Went Global: 'Spalding's World Tour'". NPR.org.

Bibliography

  • Mark Lamster, Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game, PublicAffairs, 2006, 368 p. ISBN 1586483110


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