Clipping:Spalding's factory burns down
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| Date | Wednesday, August 1, 1888 |
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| Text | A. G. Spalding & Bros.' sporting goods factory at the corner of Wentworth avenue and Fifty-fourth street, Chicago, was burned July 26. The building was a large frame structure. Its destruction was complete. The Sporting Life August 1, 1888 an early version of the story of Von der Ahe’s introduction to baseball An exchange asserts that Von der Ahe got into the business through accident when the old original St. Louis team disbanded. Chris had a little beer saloon near the grounds, and without the games he might as well close. Pierce, Pike, Chapman and a few others asked him to put up money for an outfit, and he handed out $100. They made him president, and, as they played good ball, he made money. With Teutonic shrewdness he went into the business heavily. Result: the small saloon keeper is now–or at least he says he is–“der boss manager,” and worth $150,000 outside of his players, whose release couldn’t be bought for another $100,000. Cleveland Plain Dealer August 3, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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