Spalding (company)

Spalding
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustrySports equipment
Founded1876; 148 years ago (1876)
FounderAlbert Spalding
Headquarters,
Area served
North America
Australia
ProductsBasketballs
OwnerBerkshire Hathaway
ParentFruit of the Loom
SubsidiariesDudley
Websitespalding.com

Spalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company. It was founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago in 1876 as a baseball manufacturer, and is today headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It sells softballs through its subsidiary Dudley Sports. In the past, Spalding has manufactured balls for other sports, including American football, soccer, volleyball, tennis, and golf.

For a brief period in the 1980s, Spalding was also a designer of aftermarket automotive wheels.