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Posted By: Hal Lewis

The Peck & Snyder "historian" also told me that Andrew Peck's obituary says that he was an orphan ... then fought in the civil war ... then returned to New York and started stitching baseballs in 1866 in the top floor of 105 Nassau Street.

There are some Peck & Snyder ads that list the date of founding at 1859 ... but the "historian" believes that the company STARTED out with skates and bows and arrows and so forth in 1859 ...

but then Peck went into the Civil War and fell in love with baseball (like everyone else) and returned to New York with something NEW to sell out of his stores -- BASEBALL EQUIPMENT!!!

Very interesting old history!