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The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois. Wilson makes equipment for many sports, among them baseball, badminton, American football, basketball, fastpitch softball , golf, racquetball, soccer, squash, tennis, pickleball and volleyball.
Thomas E. Wilson (July 11, 1868 – August 4, 1958) was a Canadian-born American businessman. In 1926, he created one of the most recognizable sports brand names in the world, known as Wilson Sporting Goods.
In February 1989, Amer acquired the Chicago-based company Wilson Sporting Goods Company, which specialized in golf, tennis, and baseball products. [9] [10] Wilson was the largest manufacturer of sports products in the US, [10] but it was heavily indebted. [12] The transaction set a new record for the largest foreign acquisition in Finland. [9]
This design feature was used in the Wilson Ogg-mented irons, the forerunner of perimeter weighted or cavity back irons. [2] In 1948, then Wilson Sporting Goods President Lawrence Icely provided the financial backing for Patty Berg and Babe Didrikson Zaharias to form the Women’s PGA, predecessor of today's LPGA. [3]
Caitlin Clark signed a multiyear deal with Wilson Sporting Goods for a signature basketball line, the company announced Tuesday. The No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft will also test, advise and provide ...
www.wilson.com Wilson Sporting Goods, which calls itself "the world's leading manufacturer of ball sports equipment," has made the official NFL game ball that you see during every snap since 1941.
Spalding was the official game ball supplier to the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1983 to 2021, when the league reunited with Wilson after 37 years. [ 21 ] 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 ...
Ogg also designed and invented Ogg-mented irons for Wilson Sporting Goods. He was also an excellent player, winning the Shawnee Open in 1921, the Maine Open in 1923 and the Mass. Open and the New ...