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MANUFACTURING PERIOD
Circa 1920's-1930's
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MANUFACTURER
Unknown
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Simon Harris founded the Simon
Harris Sporting Goods in 1887. The
store was first located on Harrison
Street in East Baltimore, then moved to,
211 North Gay Street in the 1920s. After Simon's
Son completed the eighth grade, at the
age of 10, Sam Harris began work in the
store. Simon Harris died in the 1930s
and Sam Harris took over the business.
The store flourished under the younger
Harris, with clientele over the years
that included Sugar Ray Leonard, Brooks
Robinson, Jim Palmer and William Donald
Schaefer, former governor and Baltimore
mayor.
In 1987, after 70 years operating the family business "Your Old Friend"
Simon Harris retired and sold the
oldest Sporting Goods store in America
to Beck & Beck Inc. After the Becks
bought the business, they added
locations on Park Heights Avenue,
Monument Street and Eutaw Street, but
the expansion was apparently
unsuccessful. On Sept. 15, 1992,
Maryland National Bank filed a
foreclosure action against Beck & Beck
ending the reign of the 105 year old Baltimore
institution.
It's not evident when this Simon Harris "Semi Pro" baseball bat was made,
or by which manufacturer. A 1988 article
in The Sunday Sun described their piles
of inventory which included boxing
gloves dating back to the1920s,
football pants from the era of Jim
Thorpe and baseball mitts from the days
when players shunned such sissy frills
as padding. The bat featuring the
"Dash-Dot-Dash" branding could have
been made by Louisville Slugger, around
1930, and sold in the 1970's.
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