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MANUFACTURING PERIOD
Circa 1884-1930's
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MANUFACTURER
Wright & Ditson
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Founded in 1871 by Baseball Hall of
Famer George Wright and Boston
businessman Henry Ditson, the Wright &
Ditson company
specialized in tennis rackets, and golf
clubs. Sometime around the turn of the
19th century, they added baseball
equipment. By the early 1900's, A.G.
Spalding & Brothers controlled 99.7% of
the company's shares. In 1910, Wright & Ditson announced the formation of a
partnership with
Victor Sporting Goods
of Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Victor's baseball factory would produce their specialties, namely
baseballs, bats, mitts, and gloves, for
Wright & Ditson, and the goods would
thereafter bear the Wright & Ditson
logo. In 1918, the Victor Sporting
Goods Company consolidated with the
Wright & Ditson Company. All sporting
goods produced from their facilities
thereafter were stamped with a new
Victor, Wright & Ditson logo. In 1928,
Spalding consolidated Reach and the
Wright & Ditson-Victor Co. into A.J.
Reach, Wright & Ditson, Inc.
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Wright & Ditson
Baseball Bats |
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19th Century Wright & Ditson
Ring Bat |
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Wright & Ditson Victor Baseball
Bat |
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| 1911 Wright & Ditson Catalog |
1924 Wright & Ditson Victor Catalog |
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