re: Nostalgia: What Was Your First Baseball Glove?

Don’t remember the very first one, but the first nice glove I got was a black Rawlings Trap-Eze when I was 15. I babied that thing and it lasted almost 30 years before I had to replace it.

I’ve played softball for years and both my boys play baseball, so my new gloves get lots of use. I bought another Trap-Eze but couldn’t find a black one. Got the brown version. I thought I’d lost it at my kids park and so I bought a Wilson A2K and then found the Rawlings in the office lost and found about a year later. Apparently they put the nicer gloves in the office.

The two recent gloves were “used.” I used quotes because if they were used, they’d been thrown with maybe 10 times. Both were almost 50% off regular price. Definitely look for lightly used gloves for great deals if you need a new one.

I have a Rawlings that I've had since I was about 18 or 19. I'm now 74 but haven't used it since I was 30.

black leather Rawlings Ozzie Smith Baseball Glove

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My first was a Macgregor and I don’t recall whose signature.

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Got this gem from my dad. Signature was Larry Hisle (not my pic, stolen from ebay)

Probably like a Ninja Turtles one, then a basic Rawlings or Wilson from KMart as I moved into coach pitch.

Eventually I acquired one of those Rawlings with the pump up feature.

Finished my Little League career with dark tan Nokona.

I went back to a Rawlings or Wilson when I started playing first base. That thing is laying around somewhere. The others were passed down to my brother.

This is nostalgic as hell. I used to rub those bastards down with Vaseline, stick them under my mattress, rubber bands, etc.

Rawlings Mickey Mantle from Security Sporting Goods on Carrollton Avenue.

I can still remember it like it was yesterday. My first glove was a Red, White, and Blue Roberto Clemente Rawlings I picked out from the Green Stamp Store in Baton Rouge.