Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Just a quick note to say hi and introduce myself. My name's Chris and I live in Windsor, Ontario Canada. I'm very new to glove collecting....got the bug when I joined a men's hardball league this summer, after a 17 year absence from playing. Needed a new glove and when looking around, found this wonderful world of old gloves, which brought back so many memories of my first glove...well I was hooked.

There appears to be a mountain of knowledge to climb and I don't really know where to begin, so please excuse me if I don't post a whole lot, but I'll definitely be reading.

As I'm a left handed first-baseman/pitcher, I'm most interested in base mitts and lefty gloves, though from what I'm reading the lefties are less collectible?

A few of my first acquirements are:

a Rawlings Stan Musial T70 RY in what I consider to be in bad condition, though I don't really know how to judge.

an unused Nokona B9 with tags from ebay a couple weeks ago

a MacGregor "Snare"

and I picked up a new Akadema remake of the Ken Well Lou Gehrig 632 buckle back....just to have.

Anyway. Hope to meet a log of great folks here and thanks in advance for any advice, help etc, you might offer.

Chris

Welcome to the forum and to collecting! I wish you the best of luck in finding the leather.

clw wrote:As I'm a left handed first-baseman/pitcher, I'm most interested in base mitts and lefty gloves, though from what I'm reading the lefties are less collectible?

My best advice to you is collect what you like. If you like lefties go for it man!

Welcome - I went the other way -- I had an interest in gloves and though that I then started playing hardball again -- after a 39 year absence!

Hit .417 this year at age 59.

robin_buckeye wrote:Welcome - I went the other way -- I had an interest in gloves and though that I then started playing hardball again -- after a 39 year absence!

Hit .417 this year at age 59.

Nice work! I sure didn't bat that well, but I've been having an awful lot of fun! Thanks for the welcome.

Chris