Re: Chicago Sporting Goods - Nap Lajoie glove
Posted: February 7th, 2013, 5:43 pm
Interersting topic guys; great detective work Brett! This would make for an amazing American Pickers episode. The one and only Nap Lajoie glove turns up in a upstate New England barn stuck on a nail on the wall, mike says how much and the woman replies oh you can have it if you can get it off the nail. I am going go with JD's statement, for sure hitting $15000 plus. It would be the most notorious of all mitts to own, the holy grail of all mitts. I mean I think I'd still take a S&D Cobb with the box if the Lajoie didn't have one.; just kidding. It's just crazy to me, there's so many undiscovered gloves out there. Keeps you motivated, wanting to unearth the new and unaltered. The internet makes the searches broader, allowing us to really grasp how many gloves are still out there and available; I mean I still always look back at Joe's first source guide and it makes me smile. Thinking I used to think there were less than 50 Ruths available, now we see half of that a year on ebay. Joe I literally thought and still think the world of you for evolving this business. Without you, many of us would have been lost and maybe would be stuck collecting cards! lol! For example I recently came across an elderly gentlemen in his late 80s with 800+ mitts, over 500+ bats and doesn't sell to a soul. Leaves them as found, never cleans them and just loves the way they are as they sit. He came up to my booth at a show with a bat in his hand and I said may I look, he obliged, within 5 minutes he let me clean the bat with some very fine steel wool and paste wax and said that's what they look like cleaned up! It just made me think, how many people are out there, that don't want the world to know what they have, who they have, how many they have, etc. A Lajoie will surface, it's just only a matter of time.
Jared
Jared