Good glove photos are tough to find

[mikesglove]

Cool photos Greg. I like the modified glove of Deb Garms.

[okdoak]

Thanks Mike. Always surprised to find another photo of the Spalding Professional Model.
Here's Johnny Lindell with a huge outlaw web draped over Tommy Henrich's shoulder.

[okdoak]

Bill Lee with Ernie Lombardie in 1939. Vim had a Bill Lee signature model. Looks like a match?

[okdoak]

"Prince Hal" Schumacher with the 3-finger mitt. The full photo was the basis for his 1933 Goudey card.

[okdoak]

Joe Cronin had his signature on a crazy amount of TOTL gloves. D&M, Reach/Spalding, Goldsmith...Here he is with Jimmie Foxx sporting a beauty of a Wilson or Spalding, made by Wilson, with their original H-web.

[okdoak]

Classic photo of Burleigh Grimes with his Bill Doak and with a nifty modified web version.

[okdoak]

Emil Verban and Eddie Miller in 1948 with innovative Rawlings gloves for their respective times. Along with the rolled lace web, the RR featured a laced down pocket. The Playmaker had the hinged pad to make it fold over the ball easier and reinforced leather patch on the back below the web. It was the only glove in their line with those features at that time. The RR ad is from 1941, the Playmaker from 1948.

[okdoak]

Elden Auker in 1939 with a Spalding Marvel Pro-form. Interesting in that the web looks cobbled together and it still has a cloth tag. Glove photo is courtesy of JD's Glove Gallery.

[okdoak]

Dizzy and Paul Dean with the Babe in 1935. Ken-Wel offered a TOTL buckle back with Paul's signature on it that year. The ad is from 1935.

[okdoak]

Wally Berger in 1936 with Wilson's TOTL Rogers Hornsby model.

[okdoak]

One of the really cool things about this forum is the information that helps one to connect the dots. I found this 1938 photo of Red Ruffing years ago and was stumped by it. I thought the web had to be custom made and had no clue to the maker. But then I saw Mike's post about M. Denkert and his photo of Ruffing's glove with Denkert stamped on the heel. Sure enough, it looks like a good match to his signature model from JD's Glove Gallery. Think it's interesting in that buckle backs would be gone in a few years but that web would be the standard for decades to come. And that Denkert offered it some years before Rawlings did.

[okdoak]

Rabbit Warstler and Bob Kline with popular gloves in 1932.

[okdoak]

D&M's G92 was the glove of choice for many 1930's ballplayers. Schoolboy Rowe and Clarence Pickerel-

[okdoak]

I think this one is pretty cool. Tony Lazzeri in 1938 wearing the patch for the 1939 World's Fair in NYC. Plus the image is just sharp enough to make out the Frank Frisch signature on his Spalding Professional Model.

[okdoak]

Didn't think I'd be wowed by this photo of DiMaggio, Keller, and Henrich from 1941. It's a decent look at DiMaggio's Spalding Professional Model with the Wilson patented seamless thumb and Henrich with the popular Rawlings rolled lace web. But a closer look showed it to be something special. Mike posted about it awhile back.