Vintage gloves on Facebook

[okdoak]

No, not for sale. At least none that I know of. I started a Facebook page about the eras that I collect from, starting with the 1920s Bill Doak glove and thru the 1940s. It's kind of a timeline of the way gloves evolved, to the best of my knowledge. I originally thought about just putting together a scrapbook, but could never get started on it. Anyway, if anyone is interested in checking it out, it's called Collecting Baseball Gloves-Bill Doak Era. Feel free to comment if you like. If you're not into Facebook, I understand. I won't go into why I signed up a year ago, but it did cross my mind that it was an odd thing for a guy my age to do. What was next; board shorts and a piercing? I check my personal page about every two months now. But I've found that it is a pretty decent platform to write and post pictures on. If you do check it out let me know what you think. Thanks.

[Jerry J]

I have tried to find it but no luck. Help, I want to check it out.

[okdoak]

Oops, here is the link:
http://www.facebook.com/BillDoakGloves

[deebro041]

Great start!! Looking forward to seeing more!
Dan

[okdoak]

Thanks Dan!

[softball66]

Nice look at your case there Greg.
A little side note to the Doak story, which some of you know, that Doak tried to start his own glove company in the 1930s. Guess he felt that Rawlings took advantage of
his innovation and he probably got little, if any , royalties from the company. Ditto Arthur Erwin was miffed at Draper Maynard and use of his name with their gloves.

[okdoak]

Thanks Joe. I remember reading that Marty Marion was shrewd enough to ask for a percentage of the "Mister Shortstop" gloves that Rawlings sold. And they must have sold a ton of those.

[ScottWNJ]

Okdoak, I don't think its odd at all. I've been on Facebook for over two years and I'm 63. I signed up because several of my car club friends, of all ages, were on it. (We now have our own club page as well). I posted photos of some of my gloves on my page about a year ago and I add to it every now and then. When I did a search on Facebook for vintage baseball gloves, I found almost nothing. I am surprised that more of you are not on it.
Feel free to take a look at my photos. My gloves are not the super vintage, high end stuff, but the collection shaping up to be a nice variety.
Here is the link (I hope):
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 204&type=3

Scott

[okdoak]

You're right Scott, Facebook is a good venue for a collector's club or group of people with shared interests. It's very easy to post and upload pictures to your page. And I have seen quite a few people our age using it. In fact, when I joined I found that my sister-in-law and brothers-in-law were already members. I guess my take on it was already skewed by my 19 year old daughter and her friends who use it strictly to socialize. Anyway, thanks for checking out my page. I couldn't get on to yours to check out your gloves, but I'll try again. I did a few searches and found that you're right about another thing. There are a few card collectors, but virtually no equipment or memorabilia pages. Hey, I'm finally getting in on the ground floor of something

[okdoak]

Thanks for checking it out as well, Jerry. I'm going to keep adding to it whenever I have time. And I still have a lot more to cover. The Bill Doak model was part of Rawlings' line until 1952