Spalding 1906 Spring & Summer
Trade Catalog

If you have an evening to sit skimming through a catlog, do it with this one. Spalding's 1906 Spring & Summer Sports catalog is full of all sorts of equipment: tons of baseball, as well as tennis, polo, croquet, golf, association football (soccer), intercollegiate football, fencing, archery, field hockey, boxing, and pages of fitness equipment of all kind. With tiny text at the bottom of each page serving as reminders of their quality and why you should buy their things, longer descriptions of all things than found in most catalogs, and several pages of books in their athletic library, Spalding set the bar high--literally and figuratively--with this catalog for dealers. Note that the cover on this one was not there, so we've used a cover from the Library of Congress; this one here was a trade catalog with dealer pricing.