Williams, DiMaggio, Musial and the Era

[okdoak]

Three "heavy hitters" (and not too shabby in the field) from my favorite era to read about, the 1940s. So many big changes and incredible records occurred during that era, that almost every year was a milestone. From DiMaggio's hitting streak and Williams batting .406 in '41 to the departure of the games best players to serve during WWII and Jackie Robinson's integration of the game in 1947, baseball went thru huge changes. Pete Reiser had his great rookie year in '41 (2nd in the NL MVP vote), Musial was the MVP in'43 (led the league in hits, doubles, triples and BA at .357), and the St. Louis Browns went to their only WS in '44. The Red Sox lost the '46 WS (Enos Slaughter's "mad dash") and the Dodgers and Yankees had memorable Series games in '41, '47, and '49. Somewhere in there the Senators had a rotation of all knucklers, also. Just the frosting on the cake!

The gloves are a Williams Wilson 614, DiMaggio Reach 233, and Musial Worthington (the large W and Worthington stampings are very faded in the pocket)




Anyone else have a favorite year, era, or team to post? Non-endorsed gloves welcome, also!

[vintagebrett]

I'll add to the Williams/DiMaggio/Musial era with a 2 finger (Musial), 3 finger (williams) and 4 finger (DiMaggio). Could have done this a couple way with the OK and Sonnetts in my collection but I liked this combo best.

[green rhino]

I agree. This is my favorite era, for gloves anyway. The gloves are, for the most part, still split fingers. But they actually have a little padding, enough so one won't break their hand playing catch. Also, gloves older than these are very hard to find and very expensive comparitively.

So I think this is the best glove era to find old, cool looking gloves that one can actually still use without destroying.

Also, I was born in Concord and grew up 10 miles outside Boston. Williams was the best hitter of this era, With Musial a close second (Ty Cobb, believe it or not, thought Musial was the better of the two...) DiMaggio was thought of as the best "all-around" player - kind of like Mario in Super Mario Bros. 2 if that makes any sense.