Racket Wright&Ditson

In the late 1870’s, two other professional baseball players opened sporting goods stores, A.J. Reach a store in Philadelphia and George Wright, who had played on the same team with Spalding. Wright merged his business with Henry DIltson in 1878 forming Wright & Ditson. Both companies soon began manufacturing some of their own product lines like Spalding did.
In 1885, Dilson died and Spalding purchased Ditson’s halа of the company. Reach followed by selling his entire company to Spalding, in 1889, Spalding went on to purchase Peck & Snyder in I892 and pushed out the brand, while assimilating its organizations into Spalding Bros