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Posted By: George Dreher

They were a sporting goods company based in Chicago. Founded around 1920, they merged with Wilson Sporting Goods in 1931 but the brand name continued on until 1960. Judging from the graphics on your baseball box, I would guess that the baseball was made near the end of the company's existence, maybe in the late 1950s?
The company went out of business completely when one of their vaulting poles broke during a competition and critically impaled the teenager using it. They were sued and lost the case.