Nostalgia: What Was Your First Baseball Glove?

You may have had an old Wilson A2000 or Spalding I bet. All beat to hell and written on.

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I can’t remember what I had in the early 80s lol
I’m sure as I grew up, I got my brothers hand me downs

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This.

I can't remember my first glove other than it was a Rawlings hand-me-down from by older brother, which meant it was a mid/late 70's vintage. I seem to recall having a black Mizuno glove after that which I remember thinking was something special because no one else I knew had a Mizuno glove (truth be told, I didn't know what Mizuno was either. I just wanted a black glove)

No real ball player of yesteryear remembers the details of their first glove.

It was a Nokona glove, I don't remember the model.

I don't remember my very, very first glove. Maybe a Franklin or something like that?

My first good glove was a George Brett MVP .390 signature A2350 RH model. Someone stole it weeks after I had been given it. It was from Wal-Mart, I think, but it was the best thing I'd ever seen.

I went on Ebay and found the exact model just this past Christmas. I bought that and an Amos Otis glove. Then when it came time to open gifts, I had Dad and I open our gloves at the same time.

I told my parents how riddled with guilt I'd felt for the last 40+ years. I felt like I had wasted their hard-earned money. We were poor, but I never knew it.

All my Dad would say after putting on the Amos Otis was, "I'm 80 and this is the first glove I've ever had." I broke down crying later, as Dad was VERY, VERY poor growing up.

I don't have a lot, but I spoil them every single chance I get nowadays.

Thurman Munson mitt

it was a rawlings, but i cannot remember if it was a ron cey or garvey signed glove.

Got my older brother's Dave Kingman glove. Used that glove from little league all the way through high school and then used it for a while as an adult playing industrial league softball. Sucker finally gave out when I was pitching and took a comebacker that was so hard it broke my finger inside the glove and broke the glove apart. Sad day.

A Wilson Ron Guidry glove.