Good glove photos are tough to find

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Red Dooin 1913 in partial gear with a buckle web mitt.


Another catcher in full gear minus mask with a Reach mitt.

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Rabbit Maranville circa mid 1930's. who needs laces!

It looks like a D&M glove similar to this G98 model.

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Rabbit Maranville posing with some other guy sporting a Spalding base mitt with patented wrist strap.

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Hard to find an image of Ty Cobb with an identifiable glove brand. I think this photo shows him with the Rawlings Bill Doak model.

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Circa 1880's. An interesting catchers glove at the bottom of the photo.

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George Seward, catcher for Brown Stockings BBC circa 1875 with modified dress gloves.

Note the three seams on the back of the catching glove.

Nineteenth century dress gloves.

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Doc Sage and Bill VanDyke circa 1887-89

Looks like the Sauers patent catching glove. It was popular at time these Goodwin Old Judge photos were taken

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A young Carl Hubbell sporting a Rawlings Bill Doak model glove. Looks like he fashioned a web with athletic tape.

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An 1890's baseball team. Catcher is holding a Victor Combination mitt


From an 1896 Victor catalog. Later versions had a buckle web as seen on this primo example.

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Willie Mays trying on Jim Maloney's MacGregor KC1 glove prior to an old timers game at Riverfront Stadium in 1974.



Willie Mays with an H-web Rawlings. The tag is missing possibly in deference to MacGregor with whom he had an endorsement contract.

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A couple of rare model gloves.
Ken Boyer with a an X-web glove. Designed originally as part of the Rawlings Big 8 campaign in 1964. Most X-webs were middle of the line gloves. This one has the V-anchored web feature common to top of the line models.

below is the Warren Spahn XPG3 model. I couldn't find this one in a catalog.


Roger Maris with an H-web Spalding.

Another photo of Maris with the H-web glove in 1967.

A Frank Bolling Model 42-211X. I couldn't find this one in a catalog either.

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Ball players in the 1900's.

The catcher is wearing a wrap around crescent mitt

Similar to this one below.

From a Sears catalog in the early 1900's.

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A team photo of the Baltimore Blues BBC from the 1890's.

An interesting mitt below. There are some similar examples on JD's site but nothing quite as squared off.

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Mickey Mantle transitioning to first base in 1967. He's borrowing Elston Howards base mitt. Normally a catcher, Howard played first base for a number of games throughout the seasons. The Rawlings DCT model was new for '67.

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The Detroit Tigers team, early 1900's. The mitt in the foreground is interesting.


A closeup of the mitt with an example below won on ebay many moons ago.


The front and back of the mitt.


Here is a catalog illustration of mitt. Stall & Dean had a patent for a continuous band at the perimeter which permanently closed the cleft. The idea was to form a better pocket. D&M, Spalding, Ratsch Peerless and even Ted Kennedy had models with variations in the early 1900's.