Pancho Gonzales (green)

Spalding AG and Brothers. Albert Spalding Goodwili retired from professional baseball with a sore arm at the age of 26 and opened a sporting goods store in Chicago with his brother and brother-in-law in 1876, hence the name AG Spalding.

Gonzales was known for possessing one of the game’s finest serves – it was big and powerful, a precise and potent offensive weapon. “Pancho gets 50 points on his serve and 50 points on terror,” Kramer once said.
Gonzales himself embraced Kramer’s assessment, saying, “the great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor and you never hate a man you
respect.”