Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Thought I would tap the Forum wisdom and see what ideas anyone has come up with for fashioning some type of a holder for gloves. I am thinking that I could use a small wooden trophy base of 3" x 6" with a couple of 7" rods in it to slide the glove onto. The trophy component parts are readily available and inexpensive. This seems like an easy solutuion and would make it easy to remove gloves from a case and still have them displayed upright. Has anyone tried this? Or has anyone come up with an easy solution? TIA.

Sounds like a good idea. Craft stores like Michael's and Jo Anne Fabrics sell unfinished wood "plaques" with routered edges. Drill holes for some dowels, stain and varnish and you have a custom stand for a few bucks.

Ken

I use 6" easels for photos that can be found at walmart...they look nice and are only $2.50 a peice.

Try Doll stands, just bent the 2 metal prongs upward. They come any color plus wood based & there very inexpensive.

Metal coat hangers. 10 for a dollar at Dollar General. You can't beat 10 cents a piece. Bend them in a V-shape, insert the V into the middle finger, then bend the two ends straight back and make a V out of each to form a base.

Thanks everybody for the good ideas. I'm going to play around with the hanger idea and make a couple in the shape of my hand and see how they work.

I use a standard black metal book end. they are sturdy and can support a large catchers mitt. They can be bent back as shown in the picture to keep a glove from falling forward.

What I have used for mine are those large paperclips on a stand things you get at Office Depot. I think they are meant to hold notes. I have also used the spike type stand used to put a ticket or receipt on when it has been processed. they are in the same area of any office supply store and they are cheap and you can bend them to the angle you need to keep the glove upright. When i first started out I used these stands exclusively but I wanted to display more gloves so i came up with a way to hang them on the wall. I went to Lowes or Home Depot and found the cheapest doorway trim I could find, the 2" kind and i found a stain that matched the furnitire in the room i was hangin it in. I stained the long piece and then got small cup hooks for regular gloves and then larger hooks for my catchers and firstbasman mitts and handscrewed them into the wood at the distance that would allow the gloves to lay the best. I then hung the wood laterally along the wall that way i could put several rows up and display more gloves without having to have all the furniture to do it.