Good glove photos are tough to find

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby atabats » December 9th, 2017, 2:50 pm

Looks like scene directions on Bing's wrist strap. Bob couldn’t care less for directions.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby okdoak » December 10th, 2017, 9:25 pm

Those look like high quality gloves, including Lucy's 3-finger.
Reelin' through the years here:

Willie Keeler--

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Nick Altrock with a Rainey trap web--

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Vince DiMaggio--

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby okdoak » December 10th, 2017, 9:33 pm

Red Schoendienst with a top line Field Master--

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » December 14th, 2017, 2:17 pm

A young Bill Killefer with a buckle web mitt.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » December 17th, 2017, 2:58 pm

Tombstone Arizona circa 1890's. Cool photo! I like the catchers gear. He's up to date and squared away.Image
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby okdoak » December 21st, 2017, 9:31 pm

Ty Cobb with what looks to be a Bill Doak. And a 1925 ad for the glove.

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby okdoak » December 29th, 2017, 8:59 pm

Three players with Bill Doak gloves.

Pinky Whitney--

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Gene Rye--

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Myles Thomas from the minors, Toronto, I think--

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » January 4th, 2018, 12:48 pm

Wes Ferrell on the right with a blazing white glove. The intricate webbing and tie back wrist strap looks to be D&M or Goldsmith.
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Tris Speaker and the young manager Bucky Harris of the 1927 Washington Senators. 39 year old Tris Speaker alternated between outfield and first base in that year.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby atabats » January 5th, 2018, 1:16 am

mikesglove wrote:I agree, the Henri Rondeau is just a classic baseball photo.

Anyone know what kind of mitt this is? I can't figure out the make of the label. It's from 1913.
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Maybe Wright & Ditson like this patch?
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Or Rawlings?
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby okdoak » January 5th, 2018, 10:24 pm

Maybe Victor, Wright and Ditson?

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Wes Ferrell used some really cool gloves. Here are a couple more. I wonder if he was influenced by his Red Sox teammate Lefty Grove and his laced fingers Reach?

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby atabats » January 6th, 2018, 7:21 pm

An early 1950s photo of Jackie Robinson with a Spalding split-finger.
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Gene Hermanski, Jackie Robinson and Gil Hodges in 1956.
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5251 "The Clipper" model, with curved thumb, from their 1953 catalog.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby okdoak » January 7th, 2018, 9:20 pm

I did a double take looking at that catalog page. Couldn't place the model names or numbers at all. Then I realized that they were made in Canada.
I don't know how many Canadian made Spalding and Reach gloves show up on ebay these days. Years ago they did from time to time.
I picked this one up a long time ago. It has the Flex-form fingers and Seamless Thumb. I like the "Choice of Champions" stamping along the thumb, which I've never seen on a USA version.
I don't think I've seen a Canadian Spalding/Reach that was endorsed. This one has 2X stamped near the palm, but it's worn and hard to see. Don't know if that's the model number or the size.
It's a good sized glove, 10 1/2" tall.

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby atabats » January 9th, 2018, 11:43 pm

mikesglove wrote:Lou Gehrig and Dizzy Dean at the 1934 All Star game. It looks like Dean is using a Goldsmith glove similar to the Red Lucas model with the lower tunnel web removed.

The photo got bucketed so here it is again.
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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby Studboy » January 25th, 2018, 10:20 am

Found this great old photo with an awesome catchers mitt & fingerless:

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Re: Good glove photos are tough to find

Postby mikesglove » January 25th, 2018, 2:00 pm

That's a great photo! Nice view of the original Decker Safety Mitt. Still amazing to me that despite their popularity, none have surfaced yet. It looks like there is some sort of webbing or reinforcement between the thumb and body of the mitt. The button back wrist strap also is pretty cool!
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