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$14,100 For a Baseball Glove

1905 Sporting Goods Dealer – Production of Gloves/Baseballs at Reach Factory

1950 Rawlings Roundup magazine

1950’s Game-Used Gloves No Routine Pickup

19th Century Baseball Equipment

A Baseball glove Made to Help With Throwing – Megan Jaegerman

A Collector’s Glove Affair

A Father’s Glove Story – Philip Singerman

A Game of Catch

A Glove Affair

A Glove Full of Memories

A Glove is a Kid’s Best Friend – Darrell Berger

A History of the Bill Doak Glove

A Hole in the Hobby of Store-Issued Gloves

A Law Against the Claw! – Harold Kaese

A Sporting Change – Jim Washburn

Abner Doubleday Inventor of Baseball Came to Brownsville, Texas – Rene Torres

Aging Baseball Glove Leaves a Touching Legacy – Gary Schwab

Al Gionfriddo – The Man Wo Made the Catch in the ’47 Series – Fluffy Saccucci

All About Gloves

An Autograph Is No Longer What Makes a Mitt Most Valuable

Andy Cohen’s Original Baseball Glove is a Thing of Beauty – Steve Kaplowitz

Another Ruth Legend

Babe Ruth and His White, Lucky Dog Glove – Joe Phillips

Bare Hands and Kid Gloves: The Best Fielders, 1880-1899 – SABR, 1981

Baseball Could Catch Fits Over Glove Rule – Tracy Ringolsby

Baseball Gloves For Both Leagues

Baseball Gloves the ‘Last Frontier’ – Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll

Baseball’s Combat Zone

Basic Fundamentals of Glove Collecting

Bats & Gloves of Glory – Marion Renick

Batting Cleanup

Be a Sports Equipment Expert! – Rawlings Sporting Goods Company

Better Gloves – Better Fielding

Billy Crystal’s $239,000 Mickey Mantle Glove Gets Boost From Rare Note – David Seideman

Birdie Blasts Backstops Who Cry for Pillow Mitt

Black Baseball on the Border – Rene Torres

Blessed Be the Tie That Binds – Jay Feldman

Born on Farm, O-K Big-Time Now

Bottom of the Ninth – Ron Spomer

Brosius Worries as Old Glove Wears Thin – Buster Olney

Buffalo Gloves Catching On

Busted Fingers Cause Invention of Baseball Glove

Buying a Baseball Glove

Buying Baseball Gloves in Mexico

Catch the Fever – Grab a Glove at Auction

Catching a Break

Caught in History: Collector Fascinated by Gloves’ Connections to Baseball’s Greatest Moments

Changing of the Guard

Christy Mathewson’s Glove – Merritt Parmelee Allen

Claw-Type Mitts Given Okay, But With Some Modifications – Jack Ryan

Clemente’s Glove a Treasured Catch

Clues for Game Used Gloves – Joe Phillips

Collectible News & Notes

Collecting Equipment Endorsements

Collecting Gloves

Collecting Store Model Gloves

Collector’s Sport – John Forstrum

Collectors Need to do Their Homework

Controversial Baseball Glove Model That ‘Robbed’ DiMaggio For Sale – David Seideman

Cunningham Takes on Ball Gloves – Bill Grimes

D&M Misc.

D&M Sporting Goods Company – The Lucky Dog Kind

Dating Rawlings Pro Model Gloves 1984-96 – Tim Lee

Deadball – Baseball the Way it Was Meant to be Played

Do You Have the Right Glove

Donald Guillot – A Port Isabel Legend – Rene Torres

E.G. Koenig’s Sons

East Granby Collector Shares Passion With the Community

Ebay Buyer Snatches $500 Vintage Baseball Glove For $20 Through Buy It Now Mistake

Editor’s Notes

El Dorado Hills Man Shows Off His 50-Year Collection – Walter Yost

Enforcement Web to Extend to Oversized Fielders’ Mitts – Chuck Johnson

Fake Player Names Once Sold Gloves

Famous Gloves Find Some Sticky Fingers

Fielding One-Handed or Two – Don Weiskopf

Finest in the Field Were First Picks

Fits Like a Glove

For the Love of a Glove – Larry Stone

Former Major Leaguer Ted Kubiak Sells Pieces of Baseball History

Fortunate Finds Paved Way for Matthews on Babe Ruth Baseball Glove Replica – Joe Phillips

From Garbage to Gold

From Major League Mitt – From Cowhide to Catcher

Fuel to Feed the Hot Stove

Garage Sale Find: “Tornado Palm” Glove

German Military Treasure Nokona Baseball Glove

Getting a Collecting Grip on Baseball Mitts

Glove Actually – Jim Daniel

Glove Affair

Glove Affair – Robert Sanford

Glove Affair – Thomas Stinson

Glove at First Sight – John Erardi

Glove Collecting

Glove Collector Launched to Sell Re-Issues

Glove Company Catches Up on Education – Amanda Pinney

Glove Company Catches Up on Education – Amanda Pinney

Glove Company Catches Up on Education – Amanda Pinney

Glove Gets an Asterisk

Glove History and Evolution of the Baseball Gloves and Mitts

Glove Idea Had Rocky Start; Modern Version Was Born in 1919

Glove Love

Glove Making Field of Dreams – Nocona, Texas – Joe Phillips

Glove Size Rule to be Hands-On – Chuck Johnson

Glove Story

Glove Story

Glove Story

Glove Story

Glove Story

Glove Story – Frederic D. Schwarz

Glove Story – Joe Phillips

Glove With a Tongue Depressor

Gloves: A Player’s Pride and Joy

Glovology

Grabbing a Mitt Can Take You Back 50 Years – Tom Bartsch

H.B. Hughes Letter – June 29, 1934

He Got His Mitts on Some Cold Hard Cash – Tom Fitzgerald

History of Draper-Maynard Company

Hobby Trends and Values Over 15 Years

Honus Wagner Sporting Goods article – 1920

How Do You Want Your New Baseball Glove: Baked, Steamed or Wrapped?

How Your Favorite MLB Player’s Signature Wound Up in Your Childhood Baseball Glove – Ryan Fagan

Hutch Then & Now

In the Bleachers

Is Baseball Skill Improving – William A. Phelon

Keepers

KU Prof’s Collection a Hit

Leather and Lace – The Dazzy Vance Glove Story – Jeff Arnett

Lending a Hand

Local Firefighter’s Passion For Baseball Memorabilia is Contained to One Room – Mary Thurwachter

Longtime Collector Opens Nifty Memorabilia Museum…And It’s Free! – Paul Ferrante

Look for Subtle Variations When it Comes to Mitts

Looking For Leather

Made in America The Last Baseball Glove Maker Refuses to Die

Major League Glovemakers – Scott Fiesthumel

Major League Players Have a Special Love For Their Gloves

Mantle Gloves & Shoes – Kelly Eisenhauer

Manufacture of a Glove – Hy Turkin and S.C. Thompson

Mathews’ Glove a Nice Catch

McAllen Nine Invade Mexico – Rene Torres

Memorabilia Shrine Shines in Newport – Jason Thornbury

Mickey Mantle Returns – Kelly Eisenhauer

Mitt and Legend: Players Confess Love of the Glove

Mitt-Igating Circumstance – Bob Carroll

More Than a Sport, More than a Hobby

More Than a Sport, More Than a Hobby – Ron Carlson

My Cincinnati Reds Baseball Glove Collection

My Cincinnati Reds Baseball Glove Collection – Joe Phillips

Names on Catchers Mitts

New Vintage Baseball Glove Book Reveals a Potential Gold Mine

Nice Catch

Nocona Survives

Nocona’s Jewell Began Making Gloves in WWII

Nocona’s Jewell Brickey – Half Century of Crafting Baseball Gloves

Nokona Brand Tries For Comeback…

Nokona Gloves are as American as Apple Pie

Nokona Letter 1-29-51

Norcross Plant to Make Baseball Gloves

Norcross Plant to Make Baseball Gloves

Nostalgia: The 1950s and My Mitts – Christopher Buckley

OCC Knightline

Of Mice and Mitts, And Of A Rule That Helped To Clean Up Baseball – Jay Feldman

One Fan’s Tribute to Baseball Greats – And Almost Greats – Robert Creamer

One Stitch at a Time… – Ivan Sanders

Origin & Development of the Baseball Glove – Unknown

Pan American Airways Aided

Part 1: How To Hit A Home Run Selling On eBay

Piney Flats’ Droke Master Restorer of Vintage Baseball Gloves

Play Ball

Playing the Field

Practice is Best Way to Break in First Glove

Pride and Joy

Professional Baseball, the First 100 Years

Rawlings Expands Playmakers

Recall That First Baseball Glove

Relationships Between Ballplayers, Gloves are Often Long, Deep

Remembrances of an Old Baseball Fan – Ted Richards

Required Reading For Collecting Store Gloves

Rooting For the Home Team

Rules and Scoring

Sales Pitch

Scent of Oil, Leather Triggers Memories

Seven Tips to Help Collectors Steer Clear of Fakes – Joe Phillips

Shaping a Glove – From Hide to Hand

Shoeless Joe Glove Gets Collectors’ Attention

Short History of OK

Signed With Glove: Players Enjoy the Moment

Slugger’s Got a Brand New Glove

Small Town Sampler – Betty Miller

Smash ‘Em, Bake ‘Em or Sit on ‘Em: The Inexact Science of Breaking in Gloves

Stitches in Time – Jonathan Roberts

Storied Mitt Caught From ’47 Series to Auction-House Fracas – Michael O’Keefe

Striking Parallel in History of Baseball and Draper-Maynard

Students Have Ball in Course

Take Him Out to the Ball Game

Talk About Hidden Treasure: Valuable Baseball Memorabilia Found in Old Chest

The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball, 1875

The Birth of a Glove

The Catch of Their Lives – Leslie Garcia

The Collectible Glove

The Dazzy Vance Glove Story – Jeff Arnett

The Evolution of Catcher’s Equipment – SABR, 2010

The Evolution of Equipment – Unknown

The Evolution of the Baseball Glove – M. Scott Smith

The Evolution of the Glove Leather – Unknown

The Fielder’s Choice – Tim Wiles

The Final Frontier

The Glove Collector

The Glove Doctor – Bill Francis

The Gloved Hand

The Great Glove Shark

The History and Evolution of the Baseball Glove

The History of Wilson Sporting Goods Company

The Home Team

The Invention of the Baseball Glove – Society for American Baseball Research

The List of Players Who Broke the Color Barrier – Carmi Brandis

The Major League Mitt – From Cowhide to Catcher

The Memories From a Baseball Mitt Fit Like a Glove

The Mitt Won’t Fit – Denise Buffa

The Mitts That Make Us – David Jenemann

The Newport Sports Museum – George Vrechek

The Old Ball Game

The Promise – Arnold Silverman

The Story of the D&M Trade-Mark

The True Story About a Man and His Glove

The Two Baseball Gloves

The Use of Masks and Gloves

There is Nothing Quite Like a Baseball Glove

To Break In Their Gloves, Yankees Dunk, Tenderize and Lather Up

Tool Shop 1928 Catalog

Top Ten Tips For Scoring At Flea Markets From A True-Life American Picker

Toward a History of Baseball Gloves

Vintage Glove’s Value in Memories – Terry Maurer

War Time Turns Into 50 Years of Making Baseball Gloves

Werber Glove Found in Trash is a Treasure – Charlie Vascellaro

What a Good Glove Means to a Player

What is a Baseball Glove – The Rawlings Glove Company 1965

What’s the Catch

Wilson A2000

Wilson and the Grand Old Game

Winchester Heralds Misc

With Gloves in Their Hearts – Darrell Berger

World’s Brainiest Cat Devises Successful Ebay Sales Strategy – David Seideman

You’d Love the Glove, But It’s the Box That Rocks – Catherine Saunders-Watson

Your Leather Friend Will Always be There for You

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