Good glove photos are tough to find

[mikesglove]

Here's a photo of Brooks Robinson in action game 5 of the 1970 world series with the glove that Eric posted. I normally associate Robinson using the H-web glove. Here he's got a Rawlings triple action web model. Looks a lot like an XPG6.

[mikesglove]

Here's Robinson on the left with a Rawlings Wingtip Basket Web glove.

Here he is later in his career with a Rawlings Fastback featuring the Pro-Style web

This glove above now in the Smithsonian Collection. They list it as model XFLG-H

[greaseape]

Here's a pre 1964 (as evidenced by the left sleeve patch) photo of Brooks wearing what appears to be the same Rawlings XPG6 style triple action web model.

[greaseape]

2 photos of Brooks from 1969, this time sporting a Rawlings XPG-H.

[glovejunkie]

Great update…cool to see gamers like that…must have been a factory thing with that one-piece web.

A very young Bench photo, rookie year, sportin’ a nice new Rawlings mitt

[okdoak]

Love the Brooks Robinson photo's. I remember Brooks in the ads for the TGP when it first came out and lots of photo's of pro's with a Trapeze. Brooks, Mark Belanger, Davey Johnson, and Boog Powell in the other photo. Wish I knew what year it was from. Brooks' glove is stamped RSP but Rawlings discontinued the Roy Sievers model in 1961. Maybe they kept it going for their pro stock gloves.

[greaseape]

The photo of a young Johnny Bench is interesting on a few counts. First off, he's wearing what looks like number 55, not number 5 which was his number throughout his career with the Reds. Also, the last year for the sleeveless jersey was 1966 with Bench not playing his first games for Cincy until 1967. During the years the Reds used the sleeveless jersey, no one was ever assigned number 55 so it couldn't have belonged to another player. The photo was also used by Topps for their 1969 #95 Bench baseball card. The glove appears to be a Rawlings HOH-X which made it's way into Rawlings catalogs in 1968.

[glovejunkie]

Great info on the Bench photo…and a blazing example of the mitt, great stuff!!

Another nice mitt photo I saw today…Campanella and boys

[mikesglove]

Love the Brooks Robinson photo's. I remember Brooks in the ads for the TGP when it first came out and lots of photo's of pro's with a Trapeze. Brooks, Mark Belanger, Davey Johnson, and Boog Powell in the other photo. Wish I knew what year it was from. Brooks' glove is stamped RSP but Rawlings discontinued the Roy Sievers model in 1961. Maybe they kept it going for their pro stock gloves.

Good eyes Greg spying the RSP glove. The glove was distinctive in having the straight heel lace and not the Ed-U-Cated heel. Here's another photo of the RSP glove from the early 1960's

One photo I like is Brooks Robinson with the Rawlings X-lace model circa 1963.

[ebbets55]

Welcome to the Forum Derek. Love that you are starting to post.

Hey Everyone, greaseape is Derek Desnoyers. In case you don't know who he is, do a search for Desnoyers in the main Glove Gallery and you will see what he is into - high end examples in pristine condition. He's also a fellow hot-rodder buddy, thus the name.

Derek also collects catalogs and has supplied us with so many of the high resolution catalogs we have in the Glove Library, so thank you again on behalf of the hobby. Oh, and PLEASE KEEP 'EM COMING!

JD

[okdoak]

Thanks Mike. As always, I wish the photo was higher resolution. Welcome aboard Derek, good to have you here.
I've always liked the 6 finger gloves, even the Wilson Ballhawk 6 with the weird partitions between the fingers and the mid quality Geo. Reach/Hutch models. We know that the Spalding version of Rawlings' Musial TG12 was their Whitey Ford PM and when Rawlings introduced the TGP, the Spalding version was a Jim Bunning PM. Same glove, different stampings. Rawlings beefed up the web a bit in 1963 and the TGP became the TTP. Spalding's version was a Rocky Colavito PM.







Roberto Clemente also used a TGP. One of his gamers sold for $118K last December.

[okdoak]

Jackie Robinson in 1962. Wishing I could read that tag.

[greaseape]

A couple of Jim Bunning photos, this time wearing what looks to be the successor to the Spalding 42-101 Bunning personal model, the Spalding 42-105 Colavito personal model described earlier by okdoak.

[mikesglove]

Jackie Robinson in 1962. Wishing I could read that tag.

I think it is a Caprico model. Their gloves seemed to follow a Wilson pattern.

[okdoak]

I think you're right Mike. Cool.
There's a supposed Maury Wills gamer on ebay now with the RSP stamping. Guess Rawlings did use that at least for one line of their pro stock gloves.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/126017826365?i ... S%2BEhz1r7