The Spalding World Tour was an exhibition baseball tournament that circumnavigated the globe from in October 1888 to April 1889.[1][2][3] Financed by former player and sporting goods executive Albert Spalding, the tour – composed of Spalding's own Chicago White Stockings and a team of "All-Americans" – travelled to Australia, Egypt, Italy, France, England, Ireland and the United States.[4]
The purpose of the world tour was to promote the sport of Baseball nationally across the United States and globally.[5] At the time, sportswriter Henry Chadwick called it "the greatest event in the modern history of athletic sports."[6]