Before there was a Nike swoosh, there were two brands above all others: Adidas and Puma. Before that, going back to the 1920s, there were the Dassler Brothers, Adolf (“Adi”) and Rudolf (“Rudi”), in the town of Herzogenaurach in what is now northern Bavaria. The sports shoes produced by Dassler Brothers Shoes (known by a shortened version of the German as “Geda”) were much sought-after, and prior t...