That's a wonderful story about Everett and his family touching your life. I grew up playing ball with Monty Sratton's sons in high school and semi-professional ball.
Monty pitched batting practice a couple of times and helped our semi-pro bunch. It's a nice feeling to have met these old timers and their sons.
So now we can join Everett's name to the ranks of holes in the gloves.
I'll try to get a picture of the sewn hole glove that Jim Daniel likes. I think I read the hole in the glove story in one of the old Baseball magazines and ran partial in the newsletter. It seems either Bartell or Durocher got the hole in the idea from Bobby Wallace. I saw a photo many years ago of Wagner's glove in Beckett with a hole in it. Then in an article in the Smithsonian publication on Barry Halper's collection there sat a Babe Ruth gamer with a hole in it. We have speculated that Ruth chose the G41 because that was the D&M glove Wagner helped design and Ruth was a big admirer of Wagner.