Good glove photos are tough to find

[glovejunkie]

Cy and Honus…both wondering what it would have been like to play with a glove like that;)

[okdoak]

I've seen a lot of photo's of Honus in his later years. I'm always hoping to find one with him and a Honus Wagner Sporting Goods glove.
Here's one of him with another glove/mitt creation.

[mikesglove]

It looks like he grafted the top part of a base mitt onto a fielders glove. The SABR site describes Wagner as using a pancake shaped glove.

[mikesglove]

Below is an 1889 photo of catcher Hi Ebricht with a fingerless right hand throwing glove and a Sauer's patent catchers glove on the left hand. The Goodwin & Co. photos superbly captured the equipment ball players used in 1888-90.


You can see how the facing of the Sauer's glove wraps around and attaches to the back of the finger stalls. Still amazing how large that glove was for the time period.

[okdoak]

Neat photo Mike.
A young Hal Schumacher with Chief Bender. You can see the grommet web on his beat up glove.





Hal with a wide Rainey trap web some years later.

[okdoak]

Rainey web gloves seemed to be popular with the pro's back then. Hal S, Blondie Ryan, and Harry Gumbert in 1937.
Harry's glove looks to be a Spalding with the extra wide wrist strap.



Travis Jackson with what looks like the same model.



Could be this one?

[okdoak]

Jimmy Dykes with the cool Spalding Marvel Pro-Form.

[mikesglove]

The Jimmy Dykes photo is really cool.

Hank Aaron in the later 1960's.

He's sporting a MacGregor model KC1 glove.

An ad from 1968.


Aaron circa 1966.

He's using a MacGregor model KC2 glove.

An ad from 1966.

[okdoak]

I've never owned one, but I've heard that those Kangaroo gloves were pretty special.
Here are a couple of photos that I've spent way too much time trying to figure out.
Mule Haas in 1933.




I think it's a Ken Wel without their unique diverted seam pattern. It has their lacing and small strap between the thumb and finger, which seems unique to them. The tag doesn't look right though.
Possibly from a retailer like Alex Taylor or Brine or Tryon?

[okdoak]

The other one is Wes Ferrell's D&M. I think it's a Joe Cronin G98 with a good chunk of the back removed. You can see the piping that remained below the tag.
I couldn't find a catalog listing of one fully laced, but there was one in JD's glove gallery. Many thanks again to Jim for all the information on his website.

[okdoak]

I posted this photo of Emil "Dutch" Leonard with his Goldsmith Red Lucas model a while back.



He must have really liked that glove. Here it is a few years later with a modified web. It almost looks like one of those cross web gloves from the 1960s.





He threw the knuckleball from 1933 to 1953, racked up 191 wins and was a 5 time all star. He was also one of the four starters with the 1944-45 Senators, an all knuckleball rotation. Here he is with the Cubs in 1953 with a Wilson.

[mikesglove]

Nice find Greg. There's a lot going on with that cross web glove.

[okdoak]

For sure. I'd love to be able to look at the actual glove. You can see the piece of leather sewn over the thumb, but the rest of it? I just don't know.
My first glance at his 1949 Bowman card made me hope that he was still using that glove. But it's definitely not the same one. The odd looking web is rolled lace I believe.

[okdoak]

Charlie Gehringer with a beautiful Wilson glove in 1940.

[okdoak]

Wilson's top gloves offered their seamless thumb design and one piece H-web that year. Charlie went with the old school thumb. None of those models had laced heels, but it looks like they made one for him.




I found the rule concerning white/very light colored gloves, but couldn't find when it went into effect. As someone who was a press operator for a tag and label printing company, I got a kick out of seeing that the Pantone ink color booklet was their guide. Kinda strange.