Alfred Henry Spink (August 24, 1854 – May 27, 1928) was a Canadian-born American baseball writer and club organizer based mainly in St. Louis, Missouri.
Born in the city of Quebec, Canada, Al Spink and his two brothers learned baseball's English cousin, cricket.
Not long after the Browns went out of business in December 1877, the Spink brothers began thinking about how to restore professional baseball in their city.
Unfortunately, spectator interest in the game had been damaged by the scandal that persuaded the Browns to drop out, and they struggled to organize a team of former pros playing cooperatively.
The leading baseball newspapers were then based in the East, the weeklies Clipper and Sporting Life in New York and Philadelphia.