Your First Baseball Glove

DirtyDog48

I know I'm dating myself, but my first glove was a Stan Musial four-finger model (Model PML, I think!) that my dad bought for me......let's hear some memories about your first glove......did you spend that first night lathering it up with saddle soap and then wrapping it with a few heavy rubber bands to form a perfect pocket?

Gemmy10

GREAT quection DirtyDog48,

Mickey Mantle Rawlings child's glove, vintage 1961. I remember it came with a Black and White photo of the Mick with a facsimile signature on both the photo and glove. I wish I still had the glove. It would probably be worth big buckos now. My brother had one too. My second glove, which I still use, is a 1972 vintage Spaulding Mel Stottlemyre glove.

You know there are plenty of vintage collectors out there:

RAWLINGS MICKEY MANTLE XPG 6 BASEBALL GLOVE

Griffins

Billy Williams Rawlings. Saved for 8 weeks for it, the first nite my puppy chewed it up and I played 2 seasons of little league with a nearly fingerless glove. Finally bought a Boog Powell 1st basemans glove, still have it. A couple of years ago I was given a Wilson A2000, which I use now when playing catch with my son.
Still like Rawlings the most, but for no particular reason. Maybe because that is what Brooks used.

DirtyHarry

My first was a Mantle Rawlings glove. Put a ball inside it and put it under my mattress while I was breaking it in.

Cubby

A Bob Aspromonte Spaulding...and yes, with mucho saddle soap.

joestalin

My first was a no name one pulled out of the garage. My dad used it for softball before I was born. It had his name in big
letter across the front and was way too big, but I didn't care, I used it for years in my back yard pretending I was Mike Schmidt in the
World Series!

LOL

JS