Good glove photos are tough to find

[ebbets55]

Cool Stall & Dean full web. Lucky kid.

JD

[mikesglove]

Good one Jim. Here's that S&D model glove.


A pretty cool TOC photo. Love the Uniforms.

[okdoak]

Herb Pennock making do with a torn off thumb tunnel in 1928. His signature was on one of D&M's top line bucklebacks.

[mikesglove]

A circa 1910 baseball team. The Spalding Decker mitt looks brand new.

[okdoak]

Cool photo Mike.
Tom Early in 1939 with a Rawlings glove. Rawlings made two versions of that style, their top of the line Pepper Martin DeLuxe and a Bosey Berger model for 50 cents less.

[theglovester]

Thanks to JD 5-6 years ago I have a PM Pepper Delux!!! last year I was fortunate to pick up a BH Herman and a RR Rolfe rolled web!

[mikesglove]

Jim Davenport in the mid 60's. I think he's sporting a MacGregor KC5 model glove. This KC5 glove was the introduction of kangaroo leather models. The leather was a good deal darker than the cowhide models and the KC5 cost $50 back in 1966. That was $7 more than the Rawlings HOH or Wilson A2000 gloves.

[okdoak]

Billy Loes with the Playmaker and Jack Conway with the outlaw web.
Hey that's the same expression I have when I come across a really cool glove photo.

[okdoak]

Hank Aaron and Bill Bruton in 1959 I believe. That was the year that Rawlings went with their new logo. I was stumped by the web on Bill's glove, but it looks like the one used on Mickey Mantle's MMP for a couple of years. Hank's glove is from 1958 before MacGregor ditched the button in favor of the Adjusta Wrist. I'm guessing it's a Gus Bell PM GC10. Unfortunately Hank never had a PM with the Spider-Web. Thanks again to JD's site for the info.

[okdoak]

Hank Aaron was a reliable MacGregor user, but even he had to try a Rawlings Trapeze when it first came out.


The Trapeze/Trapockets were popular with the 1963 Red Sox as well.

[greaseape]

Dodgers Tommy Davis and Jim Gilliam with Rawlings Trapeze models from the early 60s. Maury Wills with his Spalding Colavito model. Ron Fairly wearing an unknown Spalding basemans mitt ( looking at the style of wrist strap it appears to be from the 50s). Anyone have an idea as to what John Roseboro has on?

[greaseape]

Brothers in arms Elston Howard, Yogi Berra and John Blanchard. Elston is sporting a Rawlings NWC, quite possibly an Elston Howard version.

[mikesglove]

I think the John Roseboro mitt may be a Rawlings HOH model RL circa 1963. The black color kind of threw me but the features of the mitt sure look like a Rawlings; the wrist strap, web lacing, cross laces above wrist opening, cross lace above middle finger stall.

[greaseape]

Mike, I found a couple of more pictures of Roseboro with a black mitt from around the same time period. Whether or not it's the same mitt as the previous I posted it's hard to say. The one photo clearly shows he's wearing a no break model. Could it be a new for1963 Rawlings HNB Earl Battey model?

[mikesglove]

Yes Derek, I think you got it! Good digging for better pics of the mitt.