Best of February 2024

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a rare 1964-65 Rawlings Mickey Mantle X-Web model HM10 glove sold for $650. Highly collectible and in super condition.

A rare 1960's Nokona Don Mossi model FS520 glove sold for $99. Features the Tex-Size-Trap.

A rare 1960's Wilson model 2402 catchers mitt sold for $75. Top of the line model features the finger control back.

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A rare 1955 Nokona Bob Lemon model G54 glove sold for $117. Features the patented seamed pocket. Probably the nicest example out there.

A 1950's Rawlings Martin Marion model G600 glove with picture box sold for $325. Glove and box are in excellent condition. Glove has the one year only gold and black cloth patch.

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A 1930-40's Marathon brand Zeke Bonura model 4283 base mitt sold for $88. A stylish and well made mitt in great condition.

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a 1930's glove sold for $88. listed only as a Spalding, It's actually a model MO Babe Ruth "Home Run Special" model. The markings are not too hard to see. It's well used with holes on the face. On the plus side, it was one of Spalding's better gloves at the time.

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A teens Wright & Ditson glove sold for $244. It's in really nice shape. An interesting label shows it was made in Canada.

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A rare 1930's Spalding model 2 Babe Ruth Home Run Special glove sold for $1375. A lower line model with coated cloth piping. Overall, the glove is in great condition with super factory stamps in the pocket.

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A 1960's MacGregor Willie Mays model B145 glove sold for $332. An interesting glove with an odd model number. The "hand lasted" stamp is usually found on the later 60's gloves with the Brunswick label. This glove however has the older style rectangular MacGregor label. The U shaped heel is also interesting on a mid line autograph model. The glove is near mint.

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A couple I missed from recent auctions other than ebay.
A Spalding Babe Ruth "Home Run Special" glove with picture box and pamphlet sold for $31,700. A case where the box is worth multiples of the glove, lol.

Listed only as a "Vintage Baseball Glove", it's lightly stamped Johnny Evers in block letters on the front with a nice Johnny Evers Co. Sporting Goods tag on the wrist strap. Evers started a sporting goods business in 1923 in Albany, NY. The glove is in nice shape and rare. It sold for $444.

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A 1925 Wilson model 554 base mitt sold for $136. This is a nice one. The factory markings on the face and cloth patch are all intact. It's the "Invisible Fingers" model. An open ended glove was built into the mitt to provide additional padding and protection for the fingers. Kind of like the fielders mitts in the early part of the century.

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a nice 1960's Nokona Jim Lemon model TST10 glove sold for $165. A top of the line model with the Tex-Siz-Trap, wrist snugger and Finger Lok.

the purported game used Babe Ruth Spalding glove at Heritage Auctions was pulled 11 hours before the closing time. It was at $400,000 about a week ago. The provenance was most likely the issue.

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A 1950's Rawlings Stan Musial model PM Supreme glove with original box and brochure sold for $399. The glove has seen some use but still in excellent condition. A top of the line model. The box is intact but pretty tattered in the back.

A near mint MacGregor Jack Jensen model G21 glove sold for $80. It features the "Spider Web".

A 1920-30's Lowe and Campbell grommet web glove sold for $100. It's in nice shape.