Good glove photos are tough to find

[Mike**Mize]

Love this photo of Jerry. Like Rizzuto, we sometimes forget how athletic these guys were. Just look at how much work goes into avoiding the sliding runner, You can see that JC's completely focused on the throw, nailing the runner at first and completing the double play!

[softball66]

Mike is right about Coleman. He's largely overlooked in the line of Yankee second basemen with Billy Martin, then Bobby Richardson succeeding him.
The Yankees had a long chain of fine second sackers before him in Tony Lazzeri, Joe Gordon and "Snuffy" Stirnweiss.

Love this photo of Jerry. Like Rizzuto, we sometimes forget how athletic these guys were. Just look at how much work goes into avoiding the sliding runner, You can see that JC's completely focused on the throw, nailing the runner at first and completing the double play!

Don't see too many of Coleman's store gloves, the Kennedy line at that time I believe.

[mikesglove]

Interesting line-up of Nokona gloves for 1948 including the new "The Latch" mitt and the "Joe Jackson" G51 model

[softball66]

Thanks Mike for the Nokona ad. I'd seen it, but it is a curious one.
The LATCH, a response to the Rawlings Trapper, never latched on. I've had one but didn't use it so don't know what
the problem was, but can imagine. First glance the mitt looks like a rocket ship.
Wonder why the emphasis on softball gloves in 1948? Lot of softball played in the service during the war and maybe
carried forward to civilian life, fast-ptich of course.
And how subtle is the Joe Jackson G51? No mention in the ad's description. Where was the off spring of that idea.
Of course, we know now that Nokona just got a local Nocona resident named Joe Jackson to sign the contract. Nothing like a
play on words or a famous player's name.

[Mike**Mize]

Before we get too far past his passing, this one to celebrate the great Ralph Kiner.

[theglovester]

Before my time, but Kinerisms always make me laugh, Pretty nifty ball player, HR leader 6-7 times I think.

[softball66]

Kiner was a feared batter in his prime. Was touted to break the Babe's record and Kiner had 54 homers one year.
Slow afoot though, like many of the sluggers. I like his MacGregor spider web glove.

[Mike**Mize]

A sampling of Kinerisms......http://www.rugusavay.com/ralph-kiner-quotes/

[murphusa]

not vintage but 2014 Phillies catchers gloves

[mikesglove]

It looks like the first is his everyday mitt then one he is breaking in and last, a new one.

[mikesglove]

A nice vintage photo from 1904.

[mikesglove]

POTUS, opening day.

Rawlings men, first up, H.W. with his Rawlings "Trapper" from Yale.


Relaced, oiled and well maintained. It looks like it has the Rawlings "cloud" patch.


Obama


Clinton



Wilson men; first up, Nixon


LBJ


Ike


Ike blew off his first opportunity to throw out the ceremonial first pitch in 1953 to play a round of glove at Augusta. He was ridiculed in the press as the "duffer in chief". Fortunately for Ike, the ball game was rained out and he made the wise decision to make the rescheduled game. Below is the glove Wilson made especially for the occasion, a "Lefty Gomez" model 2034 with Dwight Eisenhower stamped on the pinky.

[softball66]

Are the negatives reversed or are those presidents left-handed?
I was told Harry Truman was ambidextrous and the glove maker didn't know which hand to make his glove for. Wound up
making both a lefty and a righty.
Wonder how Wilson got in on the presidents glove act? I think Rawlings had the honor up until Ike.

[mikesglove]

three photos from the 1940's.

Johnny Pesky with his Rawlings split finger H-web glove. It looks like he laced the first two fingers together.


Eddie Joost and Bob Dillinger beside the Rawlings "Glove Doc" Harry latina.


Rookie pitcher Ralph Waite with an ultra cool triple tunnel Rawlings glove. This one is circa 1940.

[theglovester]

Whoa!!! I think I saw a Pepper Martin PM or a putty tat?? Ralph Waite looks like he has an elusive PM or a BH Billy Herman on his paw... just guessing, but will have to bide me over til one surfaces...

Happy Easter to all, Drokester