When were JC Higgins baseball bats made?
John Higgins was the manager of the Sears headquarters’ office bookkeepers. John Higgins consented to Sears use of his name for a new line of sporting goods. Since he did not have a middle initial, Sears added the “C.” In 1908, the Western Sporting Goods Company in Chicago began putting J.C. Higgins on baseballs and bats, and gloves sold in Sears catalogs. The J.C. Higgins brand disappeared shortly after Sears introduced the Ted Williams brand of sporting and recreation goods in 1961.
