Paul Bunyan

[ristankor]

Hello, everyone. I've recently acquired a Rawlings G600 "Mr. Shortstop" glove. Can anyone fill me in about "Paul Bunyan Leather" ? What years was it offered, how many different gloves, things like that. This is a neat glove, so any info would be really appreciated. Thanks!

[softball66]

I'd seen this Paul Bunyan leather on another Rawlings Mr. Shortstop many years ago. I think the leather seemed a little tougher but that's about all. Maybe Rawlings was experimenting with some leather and came up with that name. I've not seen it since.

[GloveGypsy]

Last year I sold a quality Rawlings G900 w/ Tom Tresh endorsement. It was a superb glove and the leather along with the Pal Bunyan stamp were in excellent condition.

Somewhere along the way, I got the impression that this leather was Rawlings top-of-the-line leather, prior to Heart of the Hide leather.

-GG

Eh tu, Brute'?

[BretMan]

I've seen a few of these on eBay, but never had the chance to get my hands on one in-person.

Somewhere in the back of my glove-overloaded brain I seem to recall that the Paul Bunyon leather was a percursor to the HOH leather, and thought that I had read that in an issue of The Glove Collector newsletter several years ago.

Ah, to have a searchable CD with every issue of TGC digitized for future reference...

[Cowboy7130]

Don't tell me ... Paul Bunyan leather is blue oxhide, right??

OK, y'all knew SOMEBODY was going to say that ...

[GloveGypsy]

I noticed that my sunscreen has titanium di-oxhide as one of the base compounds.

Surely, it must be heart of the di-oxhide.

[vintagebrett]

At a show about a month ago I was looking through a Rawlings catalog from the late 1960's - I want to say it was 1967 but I'm not positive. Anyway, the Mr. Shortshop model with Paul Bunyan leather was listed in there - it kind of threw me for a loop because Marion gloves were made many years previous to this. I would have liked to purchase the catalog but the price was ridiculous.