# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-spalding
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:30:27.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-spalding"
name: "Albert Spalding"
slug: "albert-spalding"
description: "Albert Goodwill Spalding was an American pitcher, manager, and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of the Spalding sporting goods company. He was born and raised in Byron, Illinois and graduated from Rockford Central High School in Rockford, Illinois. He played major league baseball from 1871 to 1878. Spalding set a trend when he started wearing a baseball glove."
tagline: "American pitcher, manager, and business executive (1850–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AGSpalding.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1850-09-02"
deathDate: "1915-09-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.311636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump