Good glove photos are tough to find

[okdoak]

Don't recognize these players but the glove is very cool. It's a Wilson Sarge Connally with joined fingers/extended palm.

[okdoak]

Red Ruffing and Joe DiMaggio in 1939. Red's glove is the very cool Rawlings BH.

[mikesglove]

The Sarge Connelly and Billy Herman models are nice finds! The Herman model with the finger lacing on the front is pretty cool.

[okdoak]

Thanks Mike. I've found many photos of pro's using Rawlings and Spalding 6-finger gloves back in the 1960's but none with Wilson's take on it. Wilson debuted the Big 6 /Ball Hawk 6 in 1961 and '62. It was TOTL selling for the same price as an A2000, but by '63 it was replaced by mid and lower line models and discontinued entirely after '64. Here's pitcher Ray Narleski with his in 1961.

[okdoak]

Don Mossi, Ray Narleski's teammate in Cleveland and Detroit was a Nokona endorser. I don't know if his model from JD's glove gallery is the same as the one in the photo, though it looks similar.

[okdoak]

No way of knowing if Eddie Mathews actually drank Pict-Sweet orange juice, but he definitely fielded with a Rawlings Playmaker Supreme sometime during the mid 1950's. The Milwaukee Braves of that era were something special.

[okdoak]

Harvey Haddix had a perfect game going against the Braves for 12 innings in 1959. Pretty amazing considering that the Braves as a team batted at a .290 clip that year. But he lost on Joe Adcock's home run in the 13th. Lew Burdette gave up 8 hits, but the Pirates couldn't push a run across. Getting the win on Bill Mazeroski's walk off home run in game 7 of the 1960 World Series probably helped sooth the sting a bit. His signature was on an iconic Rawlings glove.

[okdoak]

There are a few photos of Walter Johnson with a King Patent on here. This one from1916 may have been posted already, but I don't remember seeing it.