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Sorry first time post. Trying to pin down the exact year, model # etc.
This glove will be used so I also need to figure out the best way to
oil/restore as well. thanks

DiMaggio hutch 360 is all it says on it, beside "hutch built" & "oil treated"
I know it is probably Vince not Joe...

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Help you out.

Still don't know the year. All I know is V.Dom played from '37-'46 and that this isn't the last model put out that he endorsed.

This glove is mid to late 1940's. You are right that is probably isn't Joe - I think Hutch just made it with the last name so everyone would think it was his. I've seen Vince endorsed Hutch gloves before but don't remember the exact model number.

Check out the glove restoration section of the forum for tips on how to help the glove out.

Even though this is a split-finger glove, with the "full" web I had always assumed these gloves to have been issued in the early 1950's. A few gloves with non-laced fingers did hang in there until as late as the mid-1950's.

Hutch information is scarce in the collecting guides- catalog data from only a couple of years is available. But what is there shows a VINCE DiMaggio model issued in 1941, a model #40, which was their top-of-the-line glove. That definitely isn't this glove.

The 1956 catalog lists a #53 "DiMaggio Model" (no first name). That catalog also lists a #360 model, unendorsed, described as the "New Laced in Heel Model". I'm not sure if that refers to the laced heel of the glove at the wrist opening (which this glove has) or possibly a glove that had palm lace holding in the heel padding (which this glove does not).

So, there is documentation that Hutch was issuing "DiMaggio" model gloves as late as 1956, and #360 model gloves at the same time. Somewhere in the era the #360 model must have also been the DiMaggio model.

The consensus among collectors has always been that Hutch had the rights to use the DiMaggio name, based on Vinces's earlier glove contract, and continued to issue gloves endorsed with "DiMaggio" well after Vince's career had ended to capitalize on brother Joe's fame and aura.

Also of note is that Hutch, which was based in Cincinnati, seemed to get endorsement deals with a good number of Cincinnati players, which would have been the case with Vince right around the time his initial contract with Hutch must have been signed.

Thanks. I guess that's as close as I'll get to a production date.