Handsome Musial Commemorative glove
Posted: November 2nd, 2008, 3:58 pmThis is the second glove I picked up at the flea market that I think deserves some review. It's a Montgomery Ward Stan Musial Commemorative Hall of Fame 6 glove. Top grain red leather with striking gold lettering. I wish I could have seen it new but it has still retained a lot of its luster. The gold stamping really pops out on the red.
I am guessing this was made in the early 1970s after Musial was elected to the Hall of Fame and along the time that the color leather gloves were given a try by a lot of the glove makers.
It's made in Japan but don't let that fool you. Well constructed with all of the top Rawlings features (probably made under the auspices of Rawlings who was importing its lower line from Japan about this time). An XPG pattern but with its very own distinctive web with a baseball outline in the circle of the die cut pattern. Stan Musial in gold stamping on both sides of the web.
Flex O Matic palm, wing tip back, leather binding, nice features. The labels is black and gold and one of the nicest labels I've seen, especially set against the red leather. Piping is white which adds to the contrasts of the glove in a nice way.
I am guessing this was made in the early 1970s after Musial was elected to the Hall of Fame and along the time that the color leather gloves were given a try by a lot of the glove makers.
It's made in Japan but don't let that fool you. Well constructed with all of the top Rawlings features (probably made under the auspices of Rawlings who was importing its lower line from Japan about this time). An XPG pattern but with its very own distinctive web with a baseball outline in the circle of the die cut pattern. Stan Musial in gold stamping on both sides of the web.
Flex O Matic palm, wing tip back, leather binding, nice features. The labels is black and gold and one of the nicest labels I've seen, especially set against the red leather. Piping is white which adds to the contrasts of the glove in a nice way.