Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

You mean saweet as in dumb looking. You have to remember Mears sets the Gold Standard of Excellence!

Yes. I can't even fathom the idea of doing that, or finding it beneficial in any way. Having Mears look at it and give their opinion is one thing, marking it is just bizarre. Isn't a photograph on the documentation enough? People do weird things in the name of authenticity.

Some interesting personal photos from a relative of Rawlings designers Harry and son Rollie Latina circa 50's-60's.

Harry "Glove Doc" Latina repairing a glove of Richie Ashburn.


Mantle, Siebern and Bauer with Latina.


Harry and Rollie Latina with Ken Boyer

Rollie Latina and Eddie Matthews.


Harry Latina and Big Bob Turley.


Harry and Rollie with Mickey Mantle after his leg injury.


Harry and Rollie with Hank Bauer.

Below is a photo of a TOC ball player with an interesting glove. Gotta love it when an image is found with decent size and resolution. Enlarging a detail doesn't turn to mush, Yea!


Not too many hook and grommet fielders gloves out there. This one still has the pull tab attached. Pretty nice!

Jimmie Foxx spent some time as a catcher. Here he is with a Ken-Wel model.


George Kelly with a real stylish D&M model with finger guard.

At an old timers game in the 1930's. Smokey Joe Wood, Cy Young, Lefty Grove and Walter Johnson. Johnson is sporting a nice looking D&M double finger laced glove sans all the lacing.

Mickey Mantle toward the end of his career sporting a Rawlings DCT base mitt.

The "Hot Stove" League.

Some bros in the major leagues.

Pepper & Stu Martin along with Dizzy & Daffy Dean


Walker Cooper & brother Mort. No doubt Rawlings men.

Elmer Riddle demonstrating his curve ball motion


Whitey Ford admiring Satchel Paige breaking ball grip.

This cabinet photo should probably be in a special category because it is as good as it gets. It's circa 1890 of catcher Cal Broughton. Spectacular double snap button wrist straps on the catching and fingerless gloves. I have seen some blurry and inconclusive images of such glove construction in the past and here is a great photo of the real deal.

That's awesome! Never knew a double strap from that era existed.

That is incredible, what an awesome glove photo, one of the best early glove pics I've ever seen. Very cool Mike, now we need to find a set of those gloves;). Good luck on the hunt!!

Gloves, shmuvs. Check out that stache and that belt - and those shoes. Ha.

That is a truly important pic Mike. Thanks for finding it. I too have never seen the double straps before. It's so neat to see something new after all these years.

JD