by 1960pirates » June 5th, 2011, 9:38 pm
I'm not really a collector of baseball gloves, but I recently got one of Akadema's Bob Feller replicas and It really takes me back to my 1950's childhood. Just out of curiosity, I started searching the web and found this site. I would really be interested in finding a mint condition Marty Marion "Mr. Shortstop" Rawlings from the mid 50's. I never got one as a kid (despite much hinting at Christmas time and cutting out the ads in Boy's Life and leaving them under my father's cereal bowl) and I guess I'm entering my second childhood. I don't know how rare a mint or near mint glove would be, or if I could even afford one. I'm not looking for a fixer-upper or one that has been baking in someone's attic for almost half a century, but I thought this might be a good place to start. Any ideas? Oh, and since I'm much bigger than I was then, were they originally sized for little leaguers, or was there a professional model? Thanks in advance.