Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Hi All,

I wanted to change things up a bit and share one of my favorite folk art type gloves with everyone. Hope I can figure out how to post some pictures. Joe and I thought of this idea for a posting when he told me he recently saw the ugliest glove in the hobby again, which resides in a Dallas collection. I always wanted to see it because I love ugly gloves. Ugly gloves need love too. Hope we can get a picture of it one day.

Anyway, this is a homemade type mitt that I would only imagine is from the depression era when a kid probably said, "Hey mom, can I get a glove?" And she probably said, "We can't afford one but I can make you one." It is sewn together with a belt and uses a few different types of leather, rawhide and shoelaces. You put it on by placing your fingers under the rawhide backing. It's a real simple design and that's where it's beauty, or lack thereof, lies. I love it.

JD

http://www.members.aol.com/ebbets55/folkartmitt1.jpg

http://www.members.aol.com/ebbets55/folkartmitt2.jpg

That mitt, Jim, would be banned in Boston. Great idea and we've probably all got homely gloves in our collection.
The home made job Ron Carlson got from me, I'd received from New Hampshire collector Andy Michael. I took it with me to Nocona for the folks there to have a look at it. Bob Storey took it to Ab Lemons, the glove guru there, and Ab took one glace and said, "Shhhheeeesh!" We all started laughing. Mr. Storey said that was the first time he'd ever heard Ab utter close to a curse word.
I'll try to get Mr. C. to take a picture of this "Frankenglove" for us.
My current playing glove gets ugly every now and then, but, hey, maybe it's my fielding. Naaah!

That kinda looks like an old basketball that went flat....someone was being very resourceful, when they put that together..yikes.

Hi Jim,

Wow now that is an ugly glove. Very interesting. That might be a trick to catch with that old glove. LOL Thanks for showing that one.

Dave

I wish I had something to post but I don't. This is a neat topic though. I see pleny of "ugly" gloves on eBay each week.

Joe, thank you for the picture of the frankenglove. It is by far the ugliest glove I have ever seen. You were right. Ron should be proud. Here is another folk art candidate from my collection. I give, is it a basemitt or a catchers mitt, or both?





JD

Those are some ugly gloves! In fact they kinda bring to my mind the type of ball glove that Dr. Frankenstien would have made in his lab. That is if he would have been a ball player.

Here's an ugly one!

(click the link)

YUCK!

Here is crackofthebat's entry - he can tell you more about it:

This glove that Brett posted for me is stamped "Softball". It is not even big enough for a baseball!

That looks like the firstbase model of the softball fielder's glove I posted the link for!