Question

Between 1880 and 1890 how many companies began producing sporting goods products

Answer 1

79 companies began to produce sporting goods products between 1880 and 1890.

Some big companies that had formed much earlier converted to sporting goods. Draper & Maynard, for example, made men's gloves in the 1840s, but began manufacturing baseball gloves and hunting gloves in the 1880s.