The Spalding World Tour was a baseball tournament financed by the sports company Spalding. The tour began in October 1888 to April 1889, the baseball tour group travelled to Egypt,

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. The purpose of the world tour was to promote the sport of Baseball nationally across the United States and globally.

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Bibliography

* Mark Lamster, ''Spalding's World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game'', PublicAffairs, 2006, 368 p. International baseball {{baseball-stub