Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Hi All,

My name is John and I just wanted to say Hello and Introduce myself to the Community.

I've always enjoyed Baseball Gloves, but I am not much of an expert on the topic. Rather I am just a guy who has a passion for them, the smell of the Leather and the Snapping/Cracking/Popping Sound a Glove can make when Playing Catch on a Good Day. I recently bought a Wilson A2K 1796 and I am just proud to say it is mine.

I grew up on The Baseball Bunch and as a result Johnny Bench is my Favorite All Time Player and I am a lifelong Cincinnati Reds Fan. And everytime I Play Catch I cannot help but to smile and think of Ran Kinsella and his Dad tossing the Ball in Field Of Dreams.

I hope I am not rambling too much, although I know I am. I guess it is just that I feel I am amongst Friends with similar interests and I wanted to share what it is that makes me love Baseball in general and Gloves in specific, which is why I am here today.

Thanks for Reading and Thanks for this great Community,
John

Hi John: Welcome. I have not been on this forum long but can tell you it is great fun. The people here are very nice and helpful.

Enjoy.

... you are definitely in the right place, amigo! Welcome!

If you're a lifelong Reds fan...you can't be all bad!

I grew up on the Big Red Machine of the 70's and have put together as many of their gloves as I can find- Bench, Morgan, Rose, Foster, Perez, Concepcion. Still looking for a Gullet, Tolan, Griffey Sr.- and Joe Nuxhall!

Since we are on the Big Red Machine thing I will tell you my most exciting day. Davey Concepcion is from Ocumare, Venezuela, a very small town on the Caribbean Coast. During a Christmas vacation when I was nine to visit my uncle who had a beach house in Ocumare (my family is from Venezuela) guess who I met, played catch with and received a glove gift from. That's right! And...the glove is lost.

Welcome aboard!

John,
Welcome! Glad to have you on board. I'm still fairly new to the forum too. Unlike most of the other members here that are collectors, I've been buying, re-doing gloves and re-selling them. I don't always make money at it, in fact I'm quite happy to just break even on most gloves, but I do get a lot of personal satisfaction giving new life back to old gloves. The feeling of putting an old "veteran" back into the game is beyond words. In some small way, I feel it's my way of giving something back to the game that I love. It sounds corny I know, but for me that's what it's about. There's always room for another lover of the game of baseball and of course a lover of quality baseball gloves. As one of the other guys said, you've come to the right place.

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John,
Oh and one other thing, please don't bring up 1975, okay? 'Nuff said! lol

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Hey All,

Thanks for the kind feedback, you’ve really made me feel Welcomed!

I am new to the more technical side of Gloves, but I have a love and knowledge for Tennis Racquets, so I hope that might help me out with things such as Lacing a Glove which I've never done before.

I did recently Order the Book Glove Affairs which I received and the Wilson A2000 Glove Care Kit which I hope arrives soon. In the meantime I take Gloves Friends and CoWorkers Gloves home and clean them up and Condition them which I enjoy, they seem to appreciate and I hope extends the Gloves life.

An interesting thing about being a Cincinnati Reds Fan is that I am actually from the Boston, MA area. And in 1989 when I went to Cooperstown to see Johnny Bench Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame I think everyone else from my area went there to see Carl Yastrzemski.

All My Best,
John