Koufax game used glove as the "real deal."

[softball66]

I got a great deal of enjoyment examining this Sandy Koufax "game used" glove. As with any purported gamer, you want to challenge the glove as to its authenticity. This would be the third Spalding "game used" glove of Koufax which put it in pretty good company as the other two was another Rocky Colavito personal model glove such as this one and a Frank Bolling personal model, all top of the line Spalding models of Sandy's time. The
other markings, uniform number and nick name bore further evidence.
What is even more remarkable about this glove which came from Umpire Doug Harvey's family is the story I found in a Biography on Koufax which bears out the fact that Sandy gave the glove to Harvey and I furnished the excerpt from that book to the auciton house.
It becomes even more satisfying when you compare something like this to the "Berra gamer" which we've discussed earlier on this forum.
http://sports.ha.com/common/view_item.p ... t_No=81916

[drzubia8]

Did you get a chance to examine the Mays gamer thats coming up also? Did he switch to Rawlings late in his career?

[softball66]

Mays, for the most part, we've seen used the Rawlings GC12 and maybe the GC10, Kangy model, bar webs. The glove he used in the world series '54 "Catch' was a Rawlings HH and he had Rawlings we think off and on during his career. I've even got a picture of Willie with a Spalding glove on thanks to Glover Tom Taylor who keeps up with these gloves.
So, yes got to see the XPG6-X of his too. Had his uni # and name on the back and the normal XPG6 web was changed out on this one to a "Speed Trap from the usual "Triple Action" . Funny how that was Mantle's store model. Of course the Mick's name was not on this
Mays model.

[candlestick]

Joe,

thanks for posting, that's a great story and a great link. I had forgotten almost completely about DYMO labels.

[softball66]

In my last post I wrote, mistakenly," Rawlings GC12 and GC10" on Mays gloves. That should have been MacGregor GC12 and GC10. Mays was like
more than a few MacGregor endorsers who used Rawlings gloves.

[softball66]

The Sandy Koufax gamer glove hit $107, 550 with buyers premium in spirited bidding Friday. The glove was estimated at $50,000 and doubled that
before the auction was over.
Thats in the price range of the Ruth glove in the Barry Halper auction, $96,000. And it is one of the few game gloves to hit the six finger mark since game gloves have been sold or auctioned.
The Willie Mays game glove topped out at $15,535 when it ended.