Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

I'm looking for some info on a few Rawlings Gloves.
When and where manufactured and retail price.

Rawlings BF76 Davey Concepcion
Rawlings GJ57 Davey Concepcion
Rawlings R4000 Davey Concepcion
Rawlings PG12 Cesar Geronimo

Any info appreciated.

Rawlings BF76 Davey Concepcion

could not find

Rawlings GJ57 Davey Concepcion

1975 only $30.10 top glove $79.80

Rawlings R4000 Davey Concepcion

1977 (listed as R400 typo?), 1978, 1979 $60/$84, $64/$96, $68/$100

Rawlings PG12 Cesar Geronimo

1974 XFG12 Cesar Cedeno $46/$70.80 but no PG12 Geronimo

Sounds like a guy with good taste...

I say that as someone who has an endorsed glove from every starter on the 1975 Reds except for Bobby Tolan and Ken Griffey, Sr. An XPG6 Tolan passed through my hands this summer. A fellow board member sent it to me to be restored, but I couldn't convince him to part with it. I've seen Griffey Senior gloves a few times, but didn't pull the trigger.

Rawlings issued tons of gloves that didn't appear in their sporting goods catalogs, usually for sale through various retail outlets like K-Mart, JC Penneys and Montgomery Ward. These gloves seem to have odd model numbers that are almost impossible to trace. That would seem to be the case with the Concepcion BF76 (which I've never seen before) and the Geronimo PG12 (which I have seen).

The Concepcion R4000 is one elusive glove. (The "R400" is a typo in the Vintage Catalog Source Book- or at least that was the consensus here when this glove was discussed before.) I've been on the lookout for one for a few years now, and even had people contact me trying to find one. I've seen one on eBay in the last year or two- it was a solid glove that have some bad issues with ink on the back of the fingers, so I passed.

Now, all you need is a Bench, a Rose, a Morgan, a Perez, a Gullett...

BretMan wrote:Sounds like a guy with good taste...

I say that as someone who has an endorsed glove from every starter on the 1975 Reds except for Bobby Tolan ...

Now, all you need is a Bench, a Rose, a Morgan, a Perez, a Gullett...

Here are the other "Reds" Gloves my Dad and I have:
Goldsmith Frank McCormick
MacGregor BM3P Tony Perez
Rawlings Whitey Lockman
MacGregor Lee May
Rawlings RL10 Johnny Bench
Rawlings MJ57 Johnny Bench
H&B Louisville LSG46D Eric Davis
Hutch Ival Goodman
MacGregor M14T Joe Morgan
MacGregor 360 Pete Rose
Rawlings GJ70 Eddie Kasko
Rawlings RBG9PR Ken Griffey Jr.
Spalding 42-157 Vada Pinson
Spalding 42-197 Vada Pinson
Wilson A2225 AS11 Barry Larkin

BTW, Bret - Tolan wasn't with the '75 Reds, he was traded after the '73 season. Still, I've always considered him one of the Big Red Machine.

I think I had most of them at one time but have divested of any Reds later than the 1950s except for my Bench signed RL-1. I think there was one Don Gullett Rawlings glove out there that I've heard about. KG Sr. is a toughie.
Foster can be found.
A Concepcion gamer showed up outside Cincy in a Play It Again Sports store 15 years ago and was a Rawlings XPGC with the heel padding practically gone.
Figure Tolan replacing Mickey Mantle on the Rawlings XPG6? Bobby was doing great I think until he tore his achilles heel tendon. Cut down on his speed. But he was a key cog early in the 1970s.

My best friend from childhood had a Rawlings Don Guttlett Fastback glove. It was the usual tan color. It was probably a youth glove, I suspect.

The Gullett I have is a large "softball size" model. Not a bad glove, in great condition, except is has some fading and is now a very light tan.