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I have gotten some neat pictures to post but after getting them in photobucket ( big step for me) I have no idea what to do next. The man who helped me post my easbay gloves has left for a greener outfield. anyone here speak 60+ computer lanaguage?

When you are in photobucket, there are 4 different types of code you can copy - they are all listed underneath the picture- you want to copy the link in the IMG Code box - it is the last one of the 4. By clicking your cursor in that box, it will automatically copy the entire address/coding. Paste address in your posting on the forum and the picture will appear when you press submit.

That catcher's mitt-infielder glove hybrid is the coolest thing!

I guess it never dawned on me that you get to play and create new gloves ... you must have the coolest job in the world!!!!

Wow! So what's the story on those? Were they prototypes that were actually considered for production, or just something you guys came up with while goofing around?

On the Dale Long glove, it looks like you beat Akadema to the punch with their "revolutionary" near-fingerless design by about 40 years!

great job of Patent search huh. Long actually tried it as did Red Sch (no spell but St Louis HOF 2nd base ha

Bob, have you learned how to kick the photobucket?
Wasn't Dale Long the only or one of the few lefthanded catchers (for a few games) in the majors?
The catchers mitt hybrid reminds me of the old glove story of, I think, Lave Cross, who at the turn of the century and playing 3b, took a catchers mitt to his position. Caught a line drive one-handed, then turned his mitt face down to show that the ball wouldn't fall out. Took a lot of catcalls for that.
May have led to the rule about no mitts in the field.

who'd of guessed that the guy who has the "in" with rawlings would have the (1-of-a-kind?) gloves?

show us more doc

perhaps the backsides of those "amphibians"

Those are a couple of really neat gloves.

The pictures were great. I was suprised to see Dale Long on a fielders glove though. I remember him as a left handed first baseman and the other post jogged my memory about his brief fling as a catcher. I looked up his major league record (1951-1963, 1013 total games) and found that he played a total of 819 games at firstbase, 2 at cathcer (1958) and only one in the outfied(1951 his rookie year). So it still seems odd as to why his name would be on a fielders glove.
It is things like this that add to the already great hobby of glove history/mystry. Anyway we may never know the complete story behind this design/name/year/etc.

could have been trying to make him one for first and out field. that was how the Pro12TC came about for Stan the Man to use at both positions but that is only a guess on Long

Doc, that catchers mitt hybrid is the coolest thing ever. I love it. The Dale Long is outstanding too. I always thought Akadema created the Reptilian type glove. Who would have known. Thanks so much for sharing. As a long time collector, it's exciting to see something you have never seen before.

JD