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Mine has the code KEA01

What year was it made? It's old, broken in and I love it!

Noobs don't get much help, here you go! That is BLACK HORSE coding used by some appliance manufacturers and Rawlings for a time. For that era rawlings, the first letter of the sequence is the year digit (0-9). Second two letters are the month (01-12). The last two letters are the leather type.


B=1
L=2
A=3
C=4
K=5

H=6
O=7
R=8
S=9
E=0

KEA=503, March of either 85 or 95

01= Horween

This question comes up a lot. I don't know how to do it but this post should be a 'sticky' post so that glovers who wonder about the Rawlings date code could be referred to this post.