Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Hi everyone...I don't know if this subject has already been addressed, but I find it very interesting to hear stories from fellow collectors. I was just curious as to what was the first glove you bought that really got you into the hobby??
To make a long story short...
Dad and I have always been huge baseball fans. We have been going to spring training almost every year since I was eight years old. We started by collecting cards, autographs etc... Also as a young child I used to travel to antique malls with dad and grandpa and my big interest was pocket knives. I would get one for being good each time. One time we went to an antique mall and dad found a baseball glove that interested him. It was a three finger ball hawk. Of coarse we knew nothing of what we know now about gloves so it was very interesting to see a glove like this. He bought the glove and slowly our collection started and we began to buy gloves as we saw them. Now we are still collecting 12 years later and waking up at the earliest hours of the morning to travel in search of gloves at antique shows miles and miles away from home.

Thanks for your time...Hope to hear some other interesting stories!!!

My first Rawlings HOH. The quality of that glove was something that just made me want more.

I'm not sure what hooked me but I think it was the first time we went to Brimfield looking for gloves circa 1991?? I think I can remember the first gloves my Dad bought - I want him to post though to see if I remember correctly.

When I was a kid- we're talking about the 70's here- my dad was an antique dealer and I would pick up an old glove here-and-there at auctions or flea markets. But those weren't serious collecting efforts and my current interest in the hobby began about ten years ago.

My wife, who is not the athletic sort, was drafted as an extra "just in case we need a warm body in the outfield" player for a co-ed softball team I ran. She didn't even have a glove and to top it off, she is a lefty so she couldn't use one of my gamers. So I went off to search the internet to find a glove for her.

Along the way I stumbled across some vintage gloves on eBay. I thought that a couple of them would look good in a small display in my family room. The rest is history. The small display has grown into about 300 gloves nearly filling an extra room in my house!

In a roundabout way, the glove that led me to this great hobby was the glove I needed for my wife- a brand-new, all-black, 13 inch, left-handed Nike KDR1300 that is today collecting dust!

Mace Brown Goldsmith G12. Found it in an antique store, hooked ever since. If my house is burning down this is the one glove that I try to save.

IN 1953 when I played little league, I would borrow a Musial 3 finger glove. The following year my father bought me the Musial glove from the local sporting good store. Cost $8.95. I used this glove through high school. 3 years ago I decided I wanted my old glove back. I went on ebay and looked for my musial glove. I ended up with a PML musial. This was not my glove, so I looked again, now I know I needed the Musial PMM model. Thats how I began my small collection...

Can't remember the first glove I bought at Brimfield, but the first gloves I purchased that started me collecting were two Denkert Moose Skowron 1st base mitts I found at a tag sale not far from our home. I wanted to learn more about glove collecting as a hobby and found out about Joe Phillips and contacted him - the rest is history. Can't say how many gloves have passed through my collection, but I have a nice collection of 1B mitts that I really enjoy. Always looking for more, but it is a lot harder to find quality pieces now than it was 17 or 18 years ago. Can't believe how the prices have increased, especially in the last few years.

The first glove you bought at Brimfield was an Al Dark Spalding along with a couple others I can't recall - it was in the first show where we parked where the guy in front of us cleared the table with his arms and bought all those gloves.