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Established in 1943 Cambridge Sporting Goods
Corp. was a sporting Goods wholesale
distributor located in North
Bergen NJ, with warehouses located in,
Hillside NJ, Los Angeles, CA. Eugene,
OR, Muncie IN, and Slidell, LA. They carried a full line
of sporting goods made by the major
manufactures but also carried a
Cambridge line of sporting goods that
were manufactured and privately branded
for them by other companies. Their
baseball gloves were imported from a
Japanese manufacture. In 1961
Cambridge, along with the A.J.
Hollander & co. Inc., and the Olympic
sporting Goods Co. were prosecuted by
the FTC because the gloves they were
importing from Japan had the names of
ballplayers that did not legally give
endorsements to use their names.
Louisville Slugger manufactured the Cambridge branded baseball Bats. The
private braded heat foil center brand
features the "Cambridge" old
English logo dividing the words
"CHAMPIONSHIP - SELECT WOOD" written in
a circle, with the model number below
the Cambridge logo. Some bats have the
"Power Driver" logo to the
right of the center brand. The Cambridge
branded bats feature block letter
endorsements of players that were under
contract with Louisville Slugger. Models
include: Safe Hit, Major, League, Big
League, and Little League.
The Cambridge catalog also featured the Hillerich & Bradsby special
Department Store center brand
bats with 4 Trapezoidal shapes.
These bats were used for companies that
placed large orders, and featured a
catalog number unique to that companies
catalog. Cambridge bats can be
identified by model numbers that start
with the "CA" prefix followed by a
number. The catalog also features a
rarely seen Hillerich & Bradsby Co.
"Slugger II" trademark center brand
baseball bats, which are advertised as
a supplement to the 125 models. I don't
believe the "Slugger II" baseball bats
were exclusive to Cambridge Sporting
Goods but, their catalogs
are the only place I have ever seen
them listed.
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