Main article: Spalding Athletic Library Wrap cover of Spalding's Athletic Library Baseball: Base Ball, published in 1911. Spalding makes the First Major League Baseball and becomes the official ball of the National League for the first 100 years (1876-1976) and of the American League (1889-1973). Spalding has manufactured balls for baseball, softball, American football, soccer, volleyball, tennis, and golf. In baseball, Spalding manufactured the official ball of the Major Leagues through the 1976 season, using the Reach brand on American League balls and the Spalding trademark on the National League's. Prior to the AFL–NFL merger, Spalding produced the American Football League's ball, the J5V (or J5-V), which was 1⁄ 4in (0.

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In 1892 Spalding created the Spalding Athletic Library, which sold sports and exercise books through its American Sports Publishing Company, also founded that year. In response, the NBA reverted to the old leather balls (with the old eight-panel pattern) on January 1, 2007. Fortunately for players and purists, the new ball will be made with the exact specifications of the current one, as the league revealed in its press release. It was founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago in 1876 as a baseball manufacturer, and is today headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In 2006, Spalding and the NBA announced that they would create a new NBA Official Game Ball for the 2006–07 NBA season, with interlocking segments and made with a synthetic leather instead of the real thing.