Luck was with me Sunday as I dug out of the "dirt" this low throw premium Stan Musial endorsed T70RY Trapper 1b mitt. Nice shape, some silver left in some of the stamping. You have to love the Trapper black cloud patch. This was the very best of the Rawlings trappers from 1953-'55 selling for $24, then $26.50. And not bad to have one of the greatest players of all time stamped into this mitt. Musial was coming in from the outfield to play first base for the Cardinals in the 1950s.
We're indebted to Trapper Specialist Bob Duppstadt for a lot of detailed information on the great Rawlings Trappers (one of the most notable of basemitt innovations of all time) for a story that we ran in our newsletter in January 2000.
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