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re: Nostalgia: What Was Your First Baseball Glove?
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:44 pm to TigerBear1971
Posted on 6/15/26 at 7:44 pm to TigerBear1971
Mizuno world win. Got it 1990 and used it all through little league and high school for outfield
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Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:52 pm to TigerBear1971
Pretty sure that I had a Wilson. I played Little League T- Ball at Kenilworth Park in New Orleans East. I still remember the Rocket Ship Slide and getting a "Suicide drink" ( It's a soda with a little bit of every flavor) You would get a free soda after every game. They also had an old black lady who sold Hucklebucks for $1 a piece across the street from Osbourne Elementary school.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 8:59 pm to Neutral Underground
Rawlings Clemente
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:06 pm to TigerBear1971
My kid mitt in the mid-80s had a mass-produced autograph from Buddy Bell
This post was edited on 6/15/26 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:09 pm to TigerBear1971
Mine was probably one of my dad’s old softball gloves. Big, floppy, and caught everything. These days kids get brand new gloves that you can’t break in enough for their small hands and the ball bounces out. You could catch everything with those old softball gloves.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:14 pm to TigerBear1971
Carl Yastremski Triple Crown
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:17 pm to TigerBear1971
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Mine was a Wilson Catfish Hunter
Mine also, Wilson Catfish Hunter purchased in 1981 from John Bratschi’s World of Sports in Hammond, LA. I remember picking it out with my Dad like it was yesterday. Still have that old glove.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:20 pm to TigerBear1971
Not sure of brand name, it was a Marty Marion glove given to me in 1959. Tried to get a pocket to it using oil and keeping a ball in it. None of that worked. It never would make a good pocket like the gloves of some of my teammates. It was really flat.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:37 pm to TigerBear1971
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You may have had an old Wilson A2000 or Spalding I bet. All beat to hell and written on
You might be right. Seems like it was a black Wilson glove. Then it might have been a Rawlings hand me down
Posted on 6/15/26 at 9:37 pm to TigerBear1971
I hit a lot of home runs with a Tenn thumper
Posted on 6/15/26 at 10:19 pm to TigerBear1971
Wilson Paul Blair.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 10:27 pm to TigerBear1971
A black Rawlings something similar to this one. Still got it
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:18 pm to Recognizable Poster
I highly recommend anyone wistful about an old baseball glove to check out eBay. There's a strong chance that any model glove you might have had is out there somewhere.
Live a little.
Btw, top shelf service with an eBay seller named "Glove Reviver and Son Vintage Shop". Highly recommended. And no, I don't know them. I'm just a very satisfied customer.
Live a little.
Btw, top shelf service with an eBay seller named "Glove Reviver and Son Vintage Shop". Highly recommended. And no, I don't know them. I'm just a very satisfied customer.
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:22 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I had this exact
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:23 pm to Recognizable Poster
I had that one too
Posted on 6/15/26 at 11:23 pm to TigerBear1971
My first was a Macgregor and I don’t recall whose signature. I still have it
Posted on 6/16/26 at 12:51 am to TigerBear1971
Nice topic op...
Pretty sure it was a kids Wilson glove and then I got a Spalding glove with a Daryl Strawberry signature when I turned 9 for little league, then got a Mizuno when I was 12 for the rest of my career which wasn't very long lol.
I don't even think Spalding makes baseball gloves anymore...
Pretty sure it was a kids Wilson glove and then I got a Spalding glove with a Daryl Strawberry signature when I turned 9 for little league, then got a Mizuno when I was 12 for the rest of my career which wasn't very long lol.
I don't even think Spalding makes baseball gloves anymore...
This post was edited on 6/16/26 at 12:55 am
Posted on 6/16/26 at 1:55 am to TigerBear1971
That's an incredible memory, there is nothing like the feel of a first baseball glove, especially from your dad. Oiling it up and breaking it in is a total rite of passage. Keeping those around is pure nostalgia.
Posted on 6/16/26 at 6:54 am to L5UT1ger
very first, '73-ish (?) was a Wilson Ted Sizemore. then a Wilson Bobby Bonds late 70's into high school. there were really only the A2000 and the Rawlings with basketweave web as an "upgrade" that I can remember
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