Good glove photos are tough to find

[mikesglove]

Nice identifying photos Greg and Derek.
Here's one of Rolfe, Ruth and Heffner in the dugout. Ruth with his Spalding and Rolfe with one of the extended pocket Wilson models. Red Rolfe's glove probably the double tunnel Sarge Connally model 647 glove.

From a 1928 catalog

[mikesglove]

A photo of Johnny Neun. The mitt is distinctive for the unique wrist strap.

The Wilson mitt below has the patented "Buckleless" wrist strap.

[okdoak]

That's a great photo of the Wilson mitt, Mike. Good eye on the Sarge Connally glove, too.
Here's a feel good story with a twist.






I can picture the clubhouse guy asking the kid who his favorite player is; "Pee Wee? Jackie? Duke Snider?"
The kid: "Mickey Mantle"
Clubhouse guy spits out his coffee. But they did get him the glove he wanted. A Mantle MM4 retailed for $14.45 back then. Pretty nice glove for a kid.

[okdoak]

Carl Furillo and Phil Rizzuto from 1955. I think Carl's glove is a Rawlings and if that date is correct, he's had it for at least a couple of years. There's no wrist snugger or V-anchored web. It may be his H-web from the previous year with rolled lace holding it together. The base of the finger stalls are laced as well. He's talking with another guy who didn't change gloves often. Rizzuto's glove was so worn, patched and repatched that it gave rise to the myth that he only used one glove his entire career.

[okdoak]

Future left handed HOF pitcher Warren Spahn circa 1940. Guessing his glove is a Wilson. Their top of the line triple tunnel gloves of 1939 were endorsed by two lefty HOF pitchers, Carl Hubbell and Lefty Gomez. 1939 was the last year that Wilson had the reinforced leather piece on the thumb and forefinger.

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Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew at first base with a Rawlings TNT. The model first appeared in the 1963 Rawlings catalog and was their first base mitt to feature the flex-o-matic palm.

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Late 60s shot of Elston Howard, now with the Red Sox wearing a Rawlings RL.

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Top photo is the Yankees catching corps with Yogi in the middle wearing what looks like a Rawlings Walker Cooper that's been modified with a full rolled lace web. No idea what the others in the photo have on. Anyone have a guess? The bottom photo is Yogi with Elston Howard. Yogi with what looks like a Spalding (1463 Berra model or 1465 Bill Dickey) again with a modified rolled lace web, not sure about Elstons mitt

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Another Yankees photo with Yogi leading the way. Both him and Elston Howard have on the Spalding 1461 Yogi Berra model which was new to the Spalding catalog in 1956.

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Eric, nice Mays tribute. Regarding the Gil Hodges mitt, I saw the one Greg posted from ebay as well. Thought I had found a match when I first saw it but looking at it closer I realized it wasn't quite the same. The photo below is John Blanchard with a Rawlings DB7 X mitt. A little unusual as I always thought the DB in the model number stood for double break. The Rawlings DB7 Blanchard that appears in their catalogs is a double break as well as the other DB models listed.

Browsing through JDs gallery I spotted a Rawlings DB7 P model which looks very close to the Blanchard DB7 X I posted on June 20th. Again, a single break model.

[mikesglove]

Here's Charlie Silvera with a Wilson mitt and a rolled lace web.

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Mike, I went back and had another look at the photo of the Yankees catchers with Berra and his rolled lace mitt. Silvera is pictured as well and is the only one wearing a strip model mitt. It appears to be a Wilson 2410, as that is the only Wilson mitt at the time that featured a laced crotch. I'm thinking your photo is of a modified 2410. The stock 2410 first appeared in Wilsons 1951 catalog (shown below). The mitt in your photo also appears to have the black/red print tag which would be consistent with that time period.

[mikesglove]

Good sleuthing Derek.

[mikesglove]

Orlando Cepeda circa 1960. He has his Wilson A2700 "Shooting Star" mitt on one hand and a 1928 Wilson Johnny Neun model 552 on the other hand.

[okdoak]

Great photo Mike. Here's Dan Bankhead with a Wilson Ball Hawk in 1948.