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Prince Global Sports, LLC is an American sporting goods manufacturing company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1970, Prince's range of products includes rackets , footwear, apparel, tennis balls , pickleball paddles, stringing machines , hats and bags.
A Head Ski Company alpine ski, 2006 model. In 1947, Howard Head was an aircraft engineer for Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, and went skiing for the first time. Head was frustrated with the quality of the wooden skis, which he found clumsy and heavy and felt they made skiing very difficult for beginners.
The Prince original graphite, or the "POG" as it is called, or "The Original G" is a tennis racquet manufactured by Prince Sports. It was first introduced in 1980 and has been used by numerous world-class tennis players, including Andre Agassi , Michael Chang , Gabriela Sabatini , and Monica Seles .
In fact, there is nothing "original" about this model, as it is not the first Wilson graphite racquet by any means, and the 110 square inch model was the original in the line, not the longer-lived 85 square inch variant. A similarly misapplied "original" refers to the very famous Prince Graphite oversize.
Ektelon, Inc. was an American manufacturer of equipment for racquetball. Originally based in Bordentown, New Jersey, Ektelon was founded by Franklin W. "Bud" Held in 1964 as the first company to manufacture racquetball racquets and stringing machines, [1] not long after the development of the sport of racquetball by Joe Sobek.
The Baltimore and Ohio Related Industries Historic District comprises a portion of Martinsburg, West Virginia to either side of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line as it runs through the city. The district includes the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Martinsburg Shops , a National Historic Landmark , and a variety of industrial and commercial ...
Central and southeastern Ohio except Columbus: December 6, 1997: 220: April 22, 2015: 614: Columbus: October 1947: 380: February 27, 2016: 937: Southwestern part of Ohio including Dayton, Springfield, public parts of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and areas north and east of the Cincinnati metropolitan area: September 28, 1996: 326: March 8 ...
The Bentley Fortissimo tennis racquet of 1972 was the first oversize tennis racquet to be produced and demonstrated publicly. [1] Prior to its introduction, all tennis racquets were much smaller in terms of the stringbed size, measured in square inches.