Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Posting this for a fellow forum member:

I took this picture while at the Ty cobb museum in royston, ga. This is one of his actual uniforms. The next photo is one that shows a glove on display. They said it was on loan from a South Carolina man. It does not seem to fit Cobb time frame so I really don't see why they had it.

this glove seems more appropriate

http://www.hugginsandscott.com/cgi-bin/ ... emid=13938

I looked at that glove at the National - I wondered if Cobb would have used a mid-line glove like this? I wouldn't be a bidder.

Impossible. Just another indication of just how foreign or exotic the evolution of glove design is to the "general public". Wasn't there a glove recently posted on eBay with the title Turn of the Century Glove with finger laces or a web from the early 30's. Once you get outside the world of real glovers, there's a lot that is unknown. Put that full web on Cobb's hand and watch him play!

to see a good example of a Cobb game used glove go here

http://sports.ha.com/common/view_item.p ... s=on#Photo

Huggins and Scott have a Cobb glove from 1915 with Bushing Letter saying "Medium grade leather"

Dave Bushing's letter also states that there is no provenance to show that Cobb actually used the glove as a player. It will be interesting to see how much it fetches, though.

Saw where the early Ty Cobb glove sold for $8,000.
Heritage Auction ended yesterday with Lefty Grove game glove plus two autographed baseballs selling at over $11,000. A signed Satchel Paige
3 finger 50s glove went for $1700.