Good glove photos are tough to find

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I knew you'd like that one!

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Bill Doak with a few gloves explaining the evolution of the "Deep Well" pocket. Note the cut out palm glove on the left.



Whitey Ford with his Spalding "Trapocket" model and Yogi Berra with a cool rolled lace web mitt.

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All circa 1922.

Wally Schang with D&M mitt?


Joe Jackson as the catcher in a semi pro league.


Frank Snyder of the NY Giants.

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Sports Illustrated 06/12/89

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That's a nice tipped finger glove. Wonder where that one ended up. Interesting that the photo is from 1989, about when glove collecting really took off.

Below is a great vintage photo. The uniforms, bats and mitts are super. The base mitts look to have the hook and laced eyelet back. Interesting reinforced palm and crescent pad models with buckle webs, heel lacing.

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The SI issue is an ode to Cooperstown (50th) with pics of non-glove memorabilia as well. It also features an article on trending replica throwback caps. Two years before, SI had a baseball issue with a piece on Mitchell & Ness. Nostalgia really ramped up in the late '80's.

The game-used pictured gloves were examples from the HOF in 1989.

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Lou Gehrig in college with a buckle web base mitt.

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Great shot of Gehrig with his Spalding mitt in 1939.



Jimmie Foxx endorsing Spalding gloves in the 1960's. Looks like he is holding a Roger Maris model.



A player in a 19th century baseball league with one strange looking replica glove. I don't get the wings on the backs of the finger stalls.

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Those wings (gussets actually) allow the glove to be sewn entirely from the outside. It's a cost savings measure. Not only is it not even close to what a 19th C player would use (or 20th, or 21st), it also has the added benefit of looking completely ridiculous. They'd be much better served if they made gardening gloves with padding. Sadly, they used to make really great vintage gloves.

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The glove on the left is a purported Willie Mays gamer from 1965. it's a model XPG3. A nice store model version XPG3 is on the right. Mays and Spahn were teammates in 1965 that was given as the reason Mays switched from his previous XPG6X model to try the Spahn model. As you can see, the glove was pretty heavily modified. Mays was used to the "lazy S" pocket lacing and had Rawling's modify the XPG3 to his liking. Rawlings was able to incorporate some of the "Flex-o-matic" lacing holes and leave others unused. The Mays XPG3 also sported the H-web and not the store model solid web.

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Some goofy gloves. The first two from Al Schacht, the "Clown Prince of Baseball". He was a former major leaguer and found later fame as an entertainer and restauranteur.
Al Schacht's restaurant. Oversize Wison and Rawlings gloves, very well made. I wonder if they were originally company advertizing props.


Al Schacht in the dugout with his personal model Goldsmith mitt. Look at all those grommets and lacing. Got to be 40 ft of lace used around the perimeter.


Unknown player with a super-sized base mitt.

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don't remember if this ever made the page

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Nice photo of Red Rolfe with his Rawlings H-web glove.

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Bob Poser of the White Sox in 1932 sporting a nice KenWel glove. Centered finger stall seam and diagonal "NeveRip" seam below that.

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Joe Jackson photo purported to be circa 1904 playing with a semi-pro team. he would have been 17 at the time. He started playing for mill teams at age 13.


Joe Jackson in 1912 with the Cleveland Naps. I don't notice a web on his glove.


Honus Wagner in 1911 also with a webless glove.