Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Hello!!

I recently acquired a Vintage MIKE DE LA HOZ Model Spalding 42-886.
I would like anyone out there to give me some background on this glove. I know it's rare because it is listed as rare in the Glove Guide. But basically I would like to know about it. And if posible the year of issue. Mr. De La Hoz lives in Miami and I am going to get it autographed by him.
I also would like to know about CUBAN player gloves such as COOKIE ROJAS,etc.

Can't find the De la Hoz glove in the Glove Catalog Source Book nor that unusual model number, most of the Spalding fielder gloves in that decade that we have records on didn't go higher and 42-300s. Nothing higher but a catalog year might have been missed when this glove was made. 1964 is missing but this might have been a model that didn't make the Spalding catalog. Undoubtedly is was produced during Mike's career in the 1960s.
And yes, rare, in that we can't find a catalog year for it either.
There have been many collectors seeking the Cuban player endorsed gloves since the early 1990s to my knowledge years and search back all the way to Dolph Luque of the 1920s, which was a high demand 1920s glove.
Some of the later Cuban born stars have gloves: Tony Perez, Minnie Minoso,
Versalles, etc. But a lot of them didn't have glove endorsements or only a few have been found: Ramos, Pashcal etc.