| Rawlings sporting goods has been tops with me | | | | by George and Alfred Rawlings. They opened a |
| for a long time. As a schoolboy playing | | | | sporting goods store in St Louis, Missouri. |
| baseball in a vacant lot, Chancellor Avenue | | | | Rawlings sporting goods hit it big when Bill |
| playground or in Unterman Field in Newark New | | | | Doak approached them in 1920. He suggested to |
| Jersey I knew I had the best of the best if I | | | | Rawlings that a web should be laced between |
| had Rawlings to use. Playing baseball and | | | | the first finger and thumb. He said it would |
| having Rawlings sporting goods went hand and | | | | create a natural pocket. The Bill Doak glove |
| hand with me. If I had Rawlings on my left | | | | soon replaced all other baseball gloves and |
| hand I had the best sporting goods that I | | | | is the pattern manufacturing to this day. His |
| could use. I knew that I would have an | | | | most lasting contribution to the sport was |
| advantage because of my equipment. I felt | | | | for an improved baseball glove. Not his |
| great. The world was right for me. | | | | pitching. |
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| Bill Doak, a pitcher for the St Louis | | | | Funny how these things happen. I would have |
| Cardinals had something to say about putting | | | | thought that some engineer or glove developer |
| Rawlings on the baseball map. He created a | | | | would have created the glove. Not a pitcher |
| glove that hoisted Rawlings to the top of | | | | for the St Louis Cardinals. Who would have |
| sporting goods world. I will get back to Bill | | | | thought that Rawlings sporting goods found |
| in a second. | | | | the spotlight by a baseball player? I guess |
| | | | you can never sell these baseball players |
| More of my Rawlings story. | | | | short anymore. Now that I think about it. |
| | | | It's not so far fetched. Who would have |
| If I did not have Rawlings sporting goods to | | | | developed a glove, a bowler? |
| use in a game I somehow felt slighted or I | | | | |
| was at a disadvantage. Rawlings gave me | | | | Rawlings makes other fine sporting goods |
| confidence when I was a youngster. If I | | | | besides gloves. Fusion bats, pants and balls |
| forgot my glove and I had to use someone | | | | are part of the Rawlings product line. There |
| else's glove and it was not Rawlings, I would | | | | sporting goods are still top of the line to |
| look for someone to trade gloves with. I | | | | this day. Even Albert Pujols uses Rawlings. |
| looked for the red Rawlings image they had on | | | | |
| their sporting goods. I would go on a lookout | | | | When I watch a game and see one of the Major |
| to find the red patch of perfection for a | | | | Leaguers wearing some Rawlings sporting good, |
| Rawlings sporting goods glove. | | | | I always think how smart he is. |
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| The Rawlings Company was established in 1887 | | | | |