They have various plants, but the home office of Spalding sporting goods- please don"t spell it Spaldeen- has always been Chicago, Illinois. Founder one Albert Goodwill Spalding- himself a Hall of Famer. Chicago was in part the hub of the Sporting Goods industry due to at-cost leather supplied from the various meat-packing houses in the city (no longer true). many Baseball and other sports components are made out of some form of Leather- gloves, baseballs ( Horse hide) footballs- Pigskin, etc. Spalding also made Leather coats and jackets for the Defense services and some were sold surplus for airmen- and others, a leather jacket is handy in the windy city.
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