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'Spalding's World Tour' tells of Albert Goodwill Spalding who, in 1888, departed Chicago on a trip that would take him and two baseball teams round the globe. Their mission had two secret goals, to fix the game in the American consciousness as the purest expression of the national spirit, and to seed markets for Spalding's products.Lamster, Mark is the author of 'Spalding's World Tour The Epic Adventure That Took Baseball Around the Globe - and Made It America's Game', published 2007 under ISBN 9781586484330 and ISBN 1586484338.
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