Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Click on this link to get a great look at Brooks Robinson's gamer, a Rawlings SM6 in this 1970 commercial:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=0

lnsmdrftr wrote:Click on this link to get a great look at Brooks Robinson's gamer, a Rawlings SM6 in this 1970 commercial:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=0

Very nice. But the model number of the glove is XPG3-H. I've seen the glove in the Hall of Fame and have talked to Brooks Robinson about it personally.

Toad

You are exactly right! But he did use the SM6 in the 1970 WS. There is a Pic of it on an earlier post where it sold at auction.[img][img]http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/Hwebman/1.jpg[/img][/img]

This is the Site at the time of the sale. I hope I did that right???? http://www.huntauctions.com/online/view ... number=100

H-webman wrote:This is the Site at the time of the sale. I hope I did that right???? http://www.huntauctions.com/online/view ... number=100

Nice H,
I have no doubt it did belong to Brooks. I do have some doubt that it was his gamer. Based on meeting him when I was a kid and he had an XPG3-H and said that was his gamer. He thought it was very cool me just 10 yeasr old and having the same glove as him.

I've since met him a few times and he always referrs to the XPG3-H as the the glove made all his famous plays. But unless we were there I guess none of us no for sure. And that's what makes all of this a lot of fun.

And Bob at Rawlings said "the SM6 was just a retail glove"
Toad

hey toad, does that mean that the hunt auctioned sm6 was not really a gamer? that would be sad for the buyer

Hi Toad, I looked at the glove again and I can see it has a different heel design from the SM6 I had as a kid. The one I had was not near as nice as this one, in fact, as I recall it was a Boog Powell autograph model instead of Stan Musial. Boog had an autograph model fielder's glove marketed by Rawlings in the mid 60's before he moved to first for the Orioles. I guess the web design threw me off because as I recall, my SM6 had the same web design as Brooks glove. I wonder what model Brooks used at the end of his career?

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Very nice. But the model number of the glove is XPG3-H. I've seen the glove in the Hall of Fame and have talked to Brooks Robinson about it personally.

Toad[/quote]


I have a HOH that is exactly like the one in the video. It is a HPG3 not a XPG3-H and is endorsed by Brooks Robinson. Only one I have ever seen.

mudman wrote:[


Very nice. But the model number of the glove is XPG3-H. I've seen the glove in the Hall of Fame and have talked to Brooks Robinson about it personally.

Toad

I have a HOH that is exactly like the one in the video. It is a HPG3 not a XPG3-H and is endorsed by Brooks Robinson. Only one I have ever seen.[/quote]

Here's one of each of mine the HPG3 and he XPG3-H. In the later years after Brooks had made the XPG3-H famous and Rawlings had stopped used the X ate the start of their best gloves. You are right his endorsed glove was the HPG3 in later years as was an XPG3 before that. It's always been quite common for a player to be using something different that what you'll see their signature on or what's in the catalog. My interest since I saw Brooks with the same gloves as me has been what does the player use?, not sign or endorse. But that's just me.












[The first gloves is my 1967 XPG3-H I've in since new in 1967. The year I first met Brooks and he thought it was really cool that a 10 year old had the same glove. The glove was restored by Rawlings a few years back The second is my HPG3 that's 3 years old. You'll notice in the Brooks video the glove is Not a Wing Tip Back. Wing tips' were not made till 71 or 72.

I've seen a couple of HPG3's on the site and Bob at Rawlings said the made it for (The Brooks endorsed one) about a year in mid-70's. I could be wrong on that. I'll double check with him.
The last glove Brooks used (not endorsed in the catalogs or signed) was something on the lines on an HFG-6. Same as the A-Rod and Cal Ripken Pro HF-6 but then was called a HFG-6 I have those too. Posted before as my Rawlings collection.

Two very nice gloves. My HPG3 is a wing tip model with his endorsement, so I guess it is from the 70's. Thank you for all the info.

Not a nicer guy in the world than Brooks Robinson and WHAT a fielder.
When I asked him about the 1970 series, he laughed and said that he helped turn the "Red Machine" blue. He also chuckled and said that he missed an easy 32 hopper in the first ball hit to him in the series.
That aside, a writer I think in "Sports Illustrated" did a story with an interview with Brooks Robinson's glove after the series (yes, his glove) and the background on it was that it WAS an SM6 and that he got the glove in a trade with fellow player Davey May in spring training as Brooks said sometime players would try out different gloves of fellow players.
I'm not sure that Rawlings just made the glove only for retail. They certainly did make it for the stores with Stan Musial's endorsement. I've had an SMX with Musial's endorsement and, since Rawlings added the "X" to gloves for pro stock, have assumed this was a professional model. Could be that Rawlings used to hand out the SM6 at Spring Training but also an SMX.

mudman wrote:Two very nice gloves. My HPG3 is a wing tip model with his endorsement, so I guess it is from the 70's. Thank you for all the info.

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I think you've shown photos of your HPG3? I like the fact that yours has the metal eyelets around the laces at the bottom on the glove.That's just my personal taste. I wish Rawlings still did this. What do you think?

In the excitement of all the mail on the SM6 I forgot I probably know the least about his gloves Ha. Please don't think that I'm ever the last word on these Rawlings glove questions. Believe it or not some of these are older that me. Do your reasearch then if I can help I will be glad too.

B.C.

This might confuse things further???The first 3 pics are of my HPG-3 the second 3 are of my XPG 3H and the #rd set of pics are of one of my SM6's [img][img]http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/Hwebman/HPIM0910.jpg[/img][/img][img][img]http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/Hwebman/HPIM0912.jpg[/img][/img][img][img]http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/Hwebman/HPIM0915.jpg[/img][/img][img][img]http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb274/Hwebman/HPIM0919.jpg[/img][/img]

lnsmdrftr wrote:Hi Toad, I looked at the glove again and I can see it has a different heel design from the SM6 I had as a kid. The one I had was not near as nice as this one, in fact, as I recall it was a Boog Powell autograph model instead of Stan Musial. Boog had an autograph model fielder's glove marketed by Rawlings in the mid 60's before he moved to first for the Orioles. I guess the web design threw me off because as I recall, my SM6 had the same web design as Brooks glove. I wonder what model Brooks used at the end of his career?

I to this day would love to get my hands on the SMX that you had Joe....

The SM6 I think was only made a year, maybe 2 with Stan's name on it. It was kind of a farewell type glove for him. It came in a gold foil box, with a List of all Stans MLB records and accomplishments, a "how the majors play baseball" book that was reprinted with a gold cover, and an 8x10 of stan. Rawlings made quite a tadoo about it and pushed it hard at trade shows. I have a Rawlings trade mag featuring the SM6 and they had a lot of advertisements for it including an oversized "golden" SM6 that was HUGE. I remember there being some other players at the trade show helping promote the glove.... I almost thought one of the players in the picture with stan was Brooks Robinson. I will definatly have to check that out when I get home.

After Stan retired, they changed the SM6 to a Boog Powell endorsement for a year, maybe 2 then discontinued it.