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.
Ken
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.