Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Just purchased a new 2nd base glove. It is a model I have never come across or heard of before. It's a heart of the hide PRO MR , it's an 11 1/4" w/ the web style craig biggio / omar vizquel wore. Any info?

Yup, nice glove...too small for softball

probably a pro glove need to find a second base man with those letters.
MR ?

Could be Mariano Rivera. It's a closed web and he used Rawlings before Nike.

Here's a link to the ebay auction from which I purchased it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... TQ:US:1123

I should be getting it tomorrow or saturday so I can take additional pics. MVALZ, what's funny is I think I will use it for softball. When I was about 19 and first started playing softball all I had was an A2000 11 1/4" which is more the size of a true 11" . Ever since even when I put on a 12" glove and try to play infield to me it feels like a 14.5" glove, it's weird.

This was just a general release which rawlings discontinued about 2 years ago.

Ah i see, well hopefully it will make a good infield glove.

have you used a solid one piece web before?

I got into them a few years back, I have two heart of the hides, 1 pro preferred, and 1 ssk, but mine are all 11"

I do love that web.

I have never had the chance to use/ own one before. Seems like they'd be great for getting the ball out really quick, and make transfers from glove to hand easier.

I was right about Mariano. Rawlings listed in catalogs that this was the glove of Mariano Rivera, as well as Rafael Furcal and Louis Sojo. I also found one site that said it was the glove used by Joe Cede and Enrique Wilson, but I think that had it mixed up because they were the only ones that had this.

When Rivera used a Rawlings, he used a PRO209SC. His was black, while mine is a dark brown.



I think that MR model is someone else's. Maybe the good doctor can enlighten us?

Some more info here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010814093558/rawlings.com/Products/Baseball/index.asp?nav=Baseball&subnav=none

Once you get to that site, click on "Gloves", then PRO209SC.

.... Or here's a direct link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010627020037/www.rawlings.com/Products/Baseball/pro209sc.asp

Mariano entered the minors as an infielder...probably why he stuck with that smaller pattern. He did use a glove similar to the 209, but in black for a few years before switching to Nike.

Apparently he also used Zett:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Mariano-Rivera-GAME ... dZViewItem

Well boys. It showed up at my door about an hour ago. I really like it. It has a great feel to it, and should work well for me at SS / 2nd base. It has 2 small gold circles on the pinky finger below where it says gold glove series.