Good evening. This is my first post. Hello to all.
I bought my glove in 1980, bought a second glove in 1982, and just wondered if there was anything special about them other than the fact I worked to buy them and have kept them between my matress and box spring for the last 30 years or so with a ball in the pocket. I bought them at Oshmann's in Topanga Plaza. I never miss an opportunity to throw a ball around in the backyard. 4 years of college. 3 years of law school, I was always able to afford a game of catch.
My curiousity is really as to whether they were made in the USA.
Rawlings RBG 10 Jose Conseco (getting re-stitched this week-for the first time)
Rawilings PG 26 Dave Winfield (leather getting reconditioned)
For trivia, tell me what you can about these gloves. To me they are first class because I do not know any better. I catch flies-line drives-grounder-pop flies-sometimes I am catcher-sometimes I play first base-sometimes I play infield-sometimes I play outfield. The glove cannot tell. The gloves must work. I never dropped a ball because of the glove.
I had NO idea people collected gloves until I found this website. The reason I have 2 gloves is that in '82 I wanted to play catch with my girlfriend. I forgot she was a righty. I figured I would break the glove in for her at a game over the weekend and I could not return it.
The Dave Winfield glove was a must have for me. He gave the world a reason to believe that Steinbrenner was knucklehead.
What can you tell me about the gloves other than they are 30 years old and came from a sportingoods store inthe San Fernando Valley?
My guess is you will tell me it was a run of the mill glove for a kid in school then and it is a run of the mill glove now. Perhaps, but it is mine.
MBW
Thanks
MBW