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I wish you luck, but I think you are looking for something you may not to find the answer to. I still think what you are seeing is a supplier issue. You make the point about the A's and minor league Orioles wearing Spalding uniforms, but Spalding was still by far the dominant supplier of MLB uniforms at this time. What Philadelphia and Baltimore have in common, is more regional proximity than anything else.
If the logic is they wore Spalding uniforms, thus the "Spalding patch", then this is something you would expect to see as a manufacturer's characteristic as opposed to one with more of a regional focus (also, keep in mind that not all Spalding uniforms were manufactured at the same location).
Dave Grob
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