Clipping:A successful lawsuit for patent infringement of the catcher's mask
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| Date | Wednesday, March 31, 1886 |
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| Text | Some professional catchers did adopt it that season, that is 1877, but it was not used by the Bostons, very extensively anywhere, until 1878. George Wright and Fred Thayer were handling it together then, and had their patent which is on the chin and forehead rests. Now that the suit is at an end I imagine there will be some fun. Al Spalding has made thousands of masks, and so has Reach. The patent has been infringed on by every one, and Wright & Ditson can collect a royalty for all of them. In fact, every catcher who wears a Reach or Spalding mask could be prosecuted, but the winner of the suit will take no such course. They are going to make the manufacturers show up, however, and those who have been infringing have got to pay now for cutting the prince until the mask sells for half what it used to bring. There are over 10,000 masks sold annually, and the royalty on all that have been made in the past eight or nine years will about to a snug sum for Fred Thayer, George Wright and Henry Ditson, who are now the owners, and have everything in their hands. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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