Bill Hatch Sporting Goods

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Bill Hatch Sporting Goods

Postby mikesglove » June 6th, 2012, 2:12 am

W.C. Bill Hatch founded Bill hatch Sporting Goods in 1925 in Spokane, WA. They became a full service sporting goods outlet with Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter catalogs of sports equipment, uniforms, shoes and accessories. They also supplied fishing, hunting and camping gear.

Goldsmith equipment was featured in this 1936 catalog below.
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Bill Hatch died in 1956 and his wife took over the business. In 1969 she sold the Spokane store and the name was changed to Kimmel Athletic Supply and a second satellite store in Seattle was sold to a relative and still functions today as Bill Hatch Sporting Goods.

Baseball gloves surface occasionally. Here are a couple:
This 1930-40's's three finger model has the stamping for the 1922 Rawlings patent for a finger crotch seam protector. The seam protector was built inside the glove and not visible. In this glove, the seam protector between the first and second finger has popped out because of a torn seam. The webbing seems more like the Goldsmith tunnel web. An interesting glove!
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The glove below is a 1940's Bill hatch "Frank Crosetti" model with an interesting "T" web and It's almost identical to the OK Brand "Crosetti" model
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