Good glove photos are tough to find

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Circa 1920-30


"Doctor" Christy Mathewson


Circa 1890


Mantle with a pre-production Trap-Eze glove

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Rookie Johnny Bench with his Rawlings HOHX mitt.

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Houston Bluffs ball players checking out a station wagon full of Rawlings gloves and mitts circa 1960-61.

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Tris Speaker photos:
A natural right hander, Speaker injured his shoulder as a youth in Texas and taught himself to throw and bat as a lefty.

speaker with his mother.

A close up of Speaker's glove, a King patent model.

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Gabby Hartnett circa 1931. He's sporting a Dubow mitt.

below is a Dubow Gabby Hartnett signature model.


Gabby Hartnett circa 1939 as manager of the Cubs. He's sporting a Wilson model.

Below is an ad and photo of his Wilson signature model 508

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Al Rosen circa 1955. He played both first and third base.

The 1955 Rawlings glove is a model RR. The 1955 base mitt is a Wilson model 2800.

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Circa 1900

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Cool photos of the A.J. Reach factory 1910. Young lady trimming the welting on a glove.

Young man working with molded face hoop forms for mitts.

Young man assembling parts for what looks to be a double face catchers mitt

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More Reach factory photos.
Hand forming a pocket

Glove Sewing Room

Shipping room

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More Reach factory circa 1910.
Sewing the layers of padding for catchers mitts.

Preparing leather sheets for stamping with a glove die.

Assembling the glove and padding.

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Circa 1890's.

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Circa 1890's

The catchers mitt looks to be a D&M style with the riveted perimeter banding and the grommet web.

The baseman's mitt appears to have a leather reinforcement for the grommets at the wrist opening.

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Myril Hoag, Ben Chapman & Joe DiMaggio circa mid 1930's

Ben Chapman's glove with home made web using athletic tape. Also, the wrist strap is doubled up under the button. The wide wrist strap indicates the glove could be a Spalding.

Myril Hoag's glove appears to be a Spalding model. DiMaggio's glove could be a Wilson.

Closeup of DiMaggio's glove showing the webbing reinforcement and intricate lacing.

More than likely though, DiMaggio's glove was a Spalding as shown below. He did have a contract with Spalding at the time. The webbing style was prevalent on a few glove manufactures.

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Circa 1890's
A young lad with a tipped finger catching glove and a fingerless throwing glove.

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Circa 1890's University of Virginia catcher. Notice his mitt has a sewn in stiffener at the top of the face.


Something like this example