Mitchellnis was a distributor of Spalding hats for some time until around the 1950s. By 1949 or 1950, the Leslie Company purchased Spalding's hat-making business.

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1.Spalding

Spalding is one of the earliest equipment manufacturers dating back to the 1880s and held a major market share until the 1950s. During the war years of the 1940s, hats were mainly produced in Canada. Mitchell & Ness was a distributor of Spalding hats for some time until around the 1950s. By 1949 or 1950, the Leslie Company purchased Spalding's hat-making business. Spalding continued to make MLB hats for other companies, possibly American Needle, until the late 1950s. Spalding supplied flannel cardigans in the early 1970s and produced some of the first double-knit jerseys worn on the field, but by 1973 he disappeared from the MLB jersey market. (Spalding still plays an important role in NBA sports and is a basketball apparel and equipment brand well-known to Chinese fans)

Spalding (Spalding)

2. Rawlings

Since the 1880s, Rawlings (Rawlings) is baseball and sports equipment manufacturers. Rawlings' hat was worn by several teams and was used into the early 1960s. Rawlings began supplying jerseys to the Cardinals and Browns, as well as many other teams, in the early 1940s. By 1987, the team had made its own jersey supplier arrangements, but from 1987-1991 Rawlings became the first official MLB jersey supplier and was allowed to display its logo on the jerseys. However, the license is not exclusive. During the Rawlings era, teams could wear jerseys from other manufacturers, but they couldn't display any other manufacturer's logo on the jerseys. Most teams choose to wear Rawlings' jerseys at this time.

Rawlings

3.Horace Partridge

Partridge is a Boston dealer. They provided caps and jerseys to the Red Sox into the 1950s, and jerseys to the Braves until the Braves moved from Boston to Atlanta, and did not produce jerseys for the Braves after that.

Horace Partridge

4.Leacock

Leacock was a St. Louis dealer that supplied jerseys and equipment to the Cardinals and Browns in the early 20th century.

Leacock

5.Sisler-Hummel

Sisler-Hummel, a sporting goods distributor based in St. Louis, supplies hats to the St. Louis Browns. Not done now.

Sisler-Hummel

6. Harry Walker

supplied the St. Louis Cardinals (Browns) hats in the early 1960s, and their hats looked a lot like New Era to experts.

Harry Walker

7.GoldSmith, MacGregor GoldSmith, and MacGregor

Philip Goldsmith immigrated to the United States in 1861 from Austria. In 1869, he opened a toy store in Covington, Kentucky. He purchased dolls from Wolf Fletcher, the owner of a small toy manufacturing and repair shop. In 1875, Goldsmith closed the business and became Fletcher's partner in the manufacturing business. During the off-season, Fletcher makes ends meet by hand-making baseballs from leftover materials. In 1876, they patented a baseball winding machine and began expanding their sporting goods business. In 1878, the partnership ended and each began its own competing business. Goldsmith continued to make dolls, baseballs, and other sporting goods with great success. His company went through several name changes and location in Covington, but in 1890 was known as P. Goldsmith & Co. Philip's sons Oscar and Alfred became partners in the business in 1893, and Philip died of drowning a year later. The sons continued the sporting goods business and eliminated doll manufacturing. Alfred soon sold his partnership interest to another brother, Edgar.Their youngest brother, Hugo, became a partner in 1906, the company name was changed to P. Goldsmith & Sons Co., and they moved to a larger factory across the river in Cincinnati.

The Goldsmith sons tried to enter the football uniform market in the early 1900s and 1910s. They do have a niche in the growing baseball glove market. Hugo turned out to be a manufacturing genius with many patents. He offers 700 different products for every season and sport. During the Great Depression in 1933, he bought two struggling sporting goods companies. Bought Draper Maynard in 1933 and Crawford McGregor & Canby Co. in 1936 to manufacture the popular MacGregor golf clubs and equipment. In order to expand their market share in baseball, in 1946, GoldSmith added the famous MacGregor name to its products and became known as MacGregor GoldSmith. In the 1940s, the company reached the peak of its MLB team business. By 1953, the GoldSmith name had been dropped entirely and the company was simply known as MacGregor. By the late 1950s, no MLB teams were using their hats. MacGregor jerseys remained popular in the 1960s. When they acquired Sports Specialties in 1986, MacGregor-labeled hats briefly appeared in MLB ballparks before selling the company in 1987 (more on that later).

Goldsmith

8.Wilson

Wilson purchased the Hetzinger Knitting Mills in 1915 and in 1918 entered into an agreement to supply the Cubs. Wilson's jerseys and hats were worn by many teams over the years. Wilson became a major MLB hat supplier in the late 1950s, introducing New Era's 5950 closed-size cap in 1954, as New Era OEMed baseball caps for Wilson in 1974. In the late 1960s, New Era decided to phase out private label customization, and by 1975 Wilson had turned to American Needle. After the mid-1970s, only a few baseball teams continued to use Wilson's hats, including the 1987 Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. Wilson jerseys were popular with MLB teams until MLB signed an agreement with Rawlings in 1987.

Wilson (Wilson)

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is a textbook and popular science article worth reading for fans who like MLB sports; fans who like MLB jerseys and caps; and employees of MLB jerseys and caps factories in the mainland.

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