by BretMan » December 19th, 2011, 12:46 am
Model numbers that vary slightly from the collected catalog data pop up fairly often. Is this by chance a left-handed glove? It was common practice to use a different model number on RH and LH gloves. Often just the last digit of the model number was changed. One other possibility is that this was a glove intended for sale through a retail outlet other than sporting goods stores, like through a chain of department stores or maybe even at a ballpark souvenior stand.
I have one of these and it is smaller than a full-sized adult glove, but a bigger than the smallest kid-sized gloves. I guess that you could call it a "mid-sized" glove.
Three bucks for a forty year old glove, commemorating a special season by a Hall of Fame player? That's a good deal in my book! "Rare" might not be a word you'd use to describe this glove- Spalding produced thousands of these and they are pretty easy to find today. But if you think it's cool...then it's a cool glove!