Ken Griffey Jr RBG36

[mphawk]

I need some help here, there is a glove that is on eBay an RBG36 that is at $126.50. It is a nice looking glove but I don't think that it should go for that amount. I have been looking for an RBG36 Dale Murphy model with a single post web, is this price what I can expect for this model glove?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=007
Thanks,

Hawk

[BretMan]

Looks like one of those odd eBay quirks where two guys "just have to have it", setting off a bidding war and price is no object.

While this one is in good shape, these gloves are common and inexpensive. There are usually a dozen RBG36's on eBay at any given time.

With a little patience and some searching, you could probably find a nice one for under $20.

I have one just like this one- it's on the dresser in my bedroom and I'm using it to hold my wallet, cell phone and loose change!

[mphawk]

Thanks!
I was wondering if there was something special that I was unaware of!

Hawk

[Cowboy7130]

There are some good Dale Murphy RBG36 models on ebay right now. All of them have the basket web, which I think is a characteristic of all RBG36 models. I have never seen another web on the RBG36. Was it ever made with any other web?

Last year, I saw a Dale Murphy trap web on ebay, and I let it get away. Since then, it has been Moby to my Ahab. I wish I could find it again ...

[docglov]

we made a million of those RBG 36's with his name. I had a Pro T out of a blue leather that Dale signed to me at the allstar game in Chicago in the early 80"s but who knows what my son did with it. I didn't collect like I should have. Would have been rich Ha. Got my son a few autographs but always signned to him. Just did the tough ones so he would have something different . Got guys like Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton and a few other hard to gets who I new well. When he was about 6 I got a Video of hinm and Pee Wee reese playing catch (probably can't find it either)

[softball66]

I just went over and patted my Griffey 36. I didn't know he was so valuable.
He's nudged over between Seaver and Brooksy gloves now. Moving up in the world.
http://www.vintagebaseballgloveforum.co ... highlight=

[offsidewing]

One of the guys in my office just lost his father. We were heading out to the ball fields the other day and he had his dad's old mitt with him and wondered about getting it relaced. It's a Dale Murphy RBG36 that has seen lots of use but is still in tip-top shape. I offered to relace it for him.

[BretMan]

I'll confirm Cowboy's sighting of the Trap-Eze web Dale Murphy glove. I have seen two of them. If memory serves, the model numbers were of the "OR" or "four-digit" variety, not the "RBG" numbering. These gloves apparently did not appear in the Rawlings catalogs and must have been produced for sale through retail outlets such as department or chain stores.

Many such gloves are found and there is no historical data to document or date them. So, the single-bar Murphy might be out there, just not listed in the catalogs.

The only Murphy-endorsed gloves in the Rawlings catalogs are the venerable RBG36 and the nearly identical RSG36, along with three others- an RBG88, RBG105 and RBG145, all of which seem to have been inexpensive, low-end smaller gloves.

[docglov]

don't know the name for sure but I believe the OR gloves were for a Texas store chain with a name of orchlean ( that s not close but some one might be able to help out here)
Another special code was HH models for a store chain called Hermans

[softball66]

bob, i remember Hermans well. Big Texas sporting goods chain out of Houston. The other chain in Texas was Oshmans and I believe also HQ in
Houston. Seems like they all merged are were bought out.

[Cowboy7130]

I didn't know Oshman's was a Texas chain! We didn't have them over here in West Texas. We had to get our sporting goods, back in the day, from One-Eyed-Pete's Livery Stable, General Store and Sporting Goods stores.

The RBG88 is a kid's glove. One on ebay right now, but it does have the single post web. I don't know about the other two models.

[mphawk]

All of this info has been a huge help! Thank-you! I didn't realize that Rawlings put a different code depending on the retail outlet it was sold thru. At the time that I had my original glove it would have been purchased at a Hermans. So knowing the codes are a HUGE help! Thanks!

Hawk

[V-Anchored]

I have a Rawlings HFG H "Reggie Jackson" that I bought at Herman's in Chicago in 1978.