Check out the cleaning heading for Ruth & Cy Young

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Check out the cleaning heading for Ruth & Cy Young

Postby softball66 » July 15th, 2008, 4:56 pm

Two gloves I was fortunate enough to have in I've covered in the conditioning posting on this forum and some of you might like to read those postings.
The Ruth Reach 1b mitt is the bigger of the Ruth mitts, an RB1 (there was a smaller RB2) and was put out only 1929 to 1931 it appears. It was a tough cleaning job and I'm not through yet but it shows what the old pancake oil job that was customary in the old days can do to a glove in over a half century.
The Ruth mitt is 10 inches high by 10 inches wide and my adult hand fits in it comfortably. It was about 5 models down from the Reach top of line. Ruth last name was all that survived below as oil and time had taken its toll.
The Cy Young glove responded much more nicely to the treatments.
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