A 1914 advertisement for The Missouri Store at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The ad features Jake Stahl, Frank “Ping” Bodie, Jim Delahanty and Ty Cobb.
“Spring weather sort o’ puts a play ball spirit into your veins. You feel like you want to try out your arm or your batting eye.”
The store carried a full line of items “such as professionals use” from Spalding and Stall & Dean–catcher’s masks; baseball shoes, fielder’s mitts; first base mitts; body protectors, and shoe plates–with “Baseballs from 5 cents to $1.25.”
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