Thanks Mike! This is one of my favorite areas : to see what the major leaguers were wearing especially in the 1960s and earlier era.
Note on most of Mike's photos, the gloves are relatively new. Probably made by manufacture's publicity or advertising camera. Mantle shows that vertical split web and probably a predecessor to the Rawlings "Bellows Web." Tresh with the standard strap connector on the open web. Some players had the rolled lace vertical connector and Mantle is pictured with one on the cover of Sport Magazine.
Little surprised about Mays wearing a Spalding glove. He was known for using MacGregor and Rawlings. Picture made with Ted at an all-star game in the mid 1950s? Killer was
Wilson user through and through as most of his glove pix will attest.
Billy Williams, I'm guess an XPG3 with that overlapping crotch.
"Hey Rabbit. You've got a hole in your glove!"
Does anyone remember when the players used to throw their gloves in the field when they would leave the defense and go in to bat?