DescriptionThe Goldsmith Company had a long history producing sporting goods and were certainly going strong in the 1890s when Hugo Goldsmith joined his three older brothers in the business. (He was responsible for, among other things, the laceless basketball). When the Baseball Magazine visited the plant in 1915, there were 200 workers in the factory making baseballs, footballs and athletics gear with 500 more working from home. The "P" in "P Goldsmith" was Philip Goldsmith who started the business as a doll-maker then added baseballs to the output. He drowned while on holiday in 1894 and his sons took over the business dropping the doll-making side. They began making golf clubs in the 1920s and continued with them into the steel-shafted era. In the 1930s their advertisements featured Babe Didrikson. "Coordinated Golf Equipment". This connection continued when they took over the MacGregor company in 1936 and promoted that as their golf arm. Initially the company was known as MacGregor- Goldsmith but, by the 1940s, the Goldsmith name was dropped altogether