Good glove photos are tough to find

[okdoak]

Cool photo Eric. I agree about the Rainey webs. They're great gloves. My one and only is a George Reach Bucky Walters.
I think Satchel's glove may be a Wilson like this one. The quality of the leather on those is superb.

[glovejunkie]

Ah great picture of the glove…that’s it!!

Here’s a nice action shot of Yogi tagging out Ted. Ted’s face says he doesn’t like what’s coming…about to get smacked in the face with that mitt

[okdoak]

I remember an interview with Ted talking about how many extra base hits he would have had if he'd had Mickey Mantle's speed. The man had a .388 BA in 1957 when he was 38 years old!
Eric, your photo of Satchel made me look for more. I'd never seen this one of him in a Trujillo jersey before. You can tell he's not happy. He said he ran off the mound as soon as he got the win and booked it to the airport.



It almost looks like that unique tunnel web lacing that Goldsmith used later and into their MacGregor Goldsmith years, but I don't know if they did that as early as 1937. My eyes may be tricking me again.

[glovejunkie]

Great pics of Satch…such a character and personality, a lot of great photos of Page!!

Speaking of Ted and his batting average…here’s one I saw yesterday, Hugh Duffey reminding a rookie Williams about his 1894 batting average Ted has a massive glove on his hand also!!

[okdoak]

That's a great photo Eric, and one I haven't seen before. I think Ted's glove may be D&M's Chuck Klein model, which was a really popular one with the pro's in the 1930's. We have photo's in this thread of Dizzy and Paul Dean, Bob Feller, Goose Goslin, and others using it. They made it as late as 1942 and maybe later than that. Charlie Gehringer used one too, the version with eyelets to loop a lace through the fingers.

[glovejunkie]

Good photo of Ty, later in his career, with his glove, another massive one (I have an early photo of him also with a much smaller glove, but having trouble uploading it, I’ll keep trying)…

[okdoak]

I think that's a Bill Doak glove that Mr Cobb has. My grandfather had a shoe stretcher when we were kids going through growth spurts. I'm seriously wondering if the players back then had glove stretchers. More likely it was the construction of the gloves back then that made them more pliable. Look at Ted's glove from his rookie season, when they all wore the Centennial patch in 1939. That's one floppy glove and the thumb and heel look crazy elongated. No idea who made it.

[okdoak]

After looking at a lot of 1940's photo's, I started to recognize the different patches the players wore. The HEALTH patch was from 1942 and the stars and stripes from 1943 to 1945. Pretty cool that the Negro League players wore it too. That's Cool Papa Bell.

[glovejunkie]

I believe you’re probably correct about Williams glove Greg…great eye!!

Here’s Hank Thompson defying gravity lol…I think he played with Satch on the Monarchs team and then won a World Series with the Giants in ‘54

[okdoak]

Cool. His teammate, Monte Irvin, started in the Negro Leagues too.
I like this colorized photo of Roy Hughes with a 3-finger mitt.

[glovejunkie]

To keep with some colorized photos…here’s a great one of shoeless Joe, not the best photo of the details of his glove…but man I love how they just tucked them into a back pocket while taking some swings. What I would give to go back in time and be able to watch a game or even a bp session…

[okdoak]

A few more players using a 3-finger glove.


Dick Bartell.


Mike Kreevich.


Urban Shocker with Waite Hoyt.

[glovejunkie]

Those 3-finger photos are awesome…I love the weird, more unique gloves myself anyway. A couple of them look fairly well used so assume they liked the 3-finger and stuck with it.

These next 3…pay close attention, not only to the gloves, but the face…I call this the “life of a ball player!!

First, young, happy and energetic Chief Bender…

[glovejunkie]

Next…mid-career Bender…serious, studious, but still waiting and energetic…

[glovejunkie]

And Lastly…and another one of my all-time favorite baseball photos…

Late-career, Grover Cleveland Alexander…if the photo and his face doesn’t say it all…the wear, just beat and exhausted feel, the shadows and water cooler in the back ground…just an stunning photo of what a ball career does to a player over time…plus a good photo of his glove;).