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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby murphusa » April 12th, 2013, 12:33 pm

Another Gomez

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » June 8th, 2013, 10:56 am

The Doe Run Reds of Missouri. Great uniform, bat and gloves. Love the hand stitched lettering on the uniforms.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby deebro041 » June 8th, 2013, 11:50 am

Great photo Mike! I hope the lad on the right didn't play ball in those shoes. Looks like 2 different style crescents.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » June 19th, 2013, 11:18 am

Photo of George "Bingo" Binks circa 1944. New mitt originally given to him by a scout in 1936. George kept using it and when the original web wore out he had a clubhouse boy form a new one with chicken wire wrapped in athletic tape. Charlie Grimm was the minor league Milwaukee Brewers manager circa 1940 and begged George to get a new mitt even offering to buy him one. George declined the offer. The mitt was lost in a clubhouse fire circa 1944. Notice the patched pocket repair.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby softball66 » June 20th, 2013, 3:27 pm

Now, chicken wire and bandage tape, THAT'S being resourceful! If I'm correct I saw a lot of bandage or athletic tape on glove webs in the late 1930s. Thanks Mike!
Did you dream that player up? :mrgreen:
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » June 21st, 2013, 2:55 am

"Bingo" is a great nickname. It was given to him by his teammates because of his timely hitting. He had a decent career starting in the mid 1940's with the Washington Senators after knocking around in the minor and independent leaques till 1944.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby Mike**Mize » June 21st, 2013, 7:26 am

Here's another shot of him. :D
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » June 25th, 2013, 3:20 pm

Joe found some nice photos. The Ruth/Gehrig photo is especially cool and possibly never seen before.

What is that glove Ruth is wearing?
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Looks to be a white leather Spalding.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby Mike**Mize » June 25th, 2013, 7:00 pm

Looks like a G41 with a Spalding label.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » July 24th, 2013, 3:28 pm

Interesting ambidextrous glove of "switch pitcher" Pat Venditte in the Yankees farm system.
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Looks like a Mizuno model
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby NeonDon » August 21st, 2013, 12:33 am

Kenny Wel wrote:Greenberg's snare web is something. It almost looks like the ball could slip thought it. It seems that if he had to make a quick play to another base, such as across the diamond to third, it would be tough to get the ball out of the web quickly.

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Those two first photos of Greenberg's mitt are two different mitts. The top one is his regular laced Reach from 1935 that he rolled duck tap over the "web" lacing to form the "lobster trap" that was initially banned and then OK'd. The more acceptable snare strap and then tunnel snare for him and others were made after, before he and most others went to a trapper. He used the tool700X triple tunnel web when he first moved to the OF. Then after the war, the flat lace Rawlings in OF and Trapper with strap across back of the top at 1st. The crack he makes in the third photo's caption about not just posing with a 1st base mitt was sarcasm directed at the Tigers for trading him when he posed for a photo with a Yankee jersey and the Tiger owner assumed he meant he wanted to be a Yankee so dumped him to the other league for the '47 season--his last. Thanks.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » August 21st, 2013, 4:42 pm

interesting. Did Rawlings make the Tool Shop G700X special for Greenberg or did he request it?
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby softball66 » August 22nd, 2013, 9:13 am

Story I was told was that Greenberg gave his "Multi-web" base mitt to Rudy York who moved into first base for the Tigers, Greenberg going to the outfield. Heard this
from York's family. Supposedly that mitt wound up with the Tigers' clubhouse attendant. I didn't know about that mitt being banned.
The web controller on the Rawlings Trapper came along after 1947 (I believe about 1950), Greenberg had to use the non-web-controlled regular T70 or T70RY before that.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » September 19th, 2013, 11:26 pm

Harmon Killebrew circa 1964 with what looks to be an A2000.
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Rabbit Maranville with a cool looking glove with trap web. All those lacing grommets yet simple is better.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby ScottWNJ » September 20th, 2013, 10:48 pm

Hunt Auctions is featuring a collection of photographs by Dennis Brearly, a photo journalist for a Boston newspaper. Some really nice photos and a few of them show gloves.
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