What is a Vintage Baseball Glove?
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Generally speaking,
all baseball gloves and mitts are distinguished from one another by
their construction. Vintage baseball gloves are old gloves of a variety types. Split-finger gloves (commonly referred to as
"Pre-War" gloves) do not have lacing between the fingers like the laced
finger or "Post-War" models. The "Pre-" and "Post-" prefixes refer to,
and correspond approximately with, the end of World War II. Both Pre-War
and Post-War models made prior to about 1963 are button-backs. Some
have an endorsement or autograph of a famous player from a vintage era
stamped into the leather. A simple way of telling old baseball gloves apart
by era is how the glove or mitt is secured to the hand, and the webbing
or "web".
The web is the
manner in which the space between the thumb and forefinger is closed to
form a larger ball receiving pocket. This is done by securing the thumb
to the forefinger of the glove and may be accomplished by a strand of
laced extending through a tunnel made by a loop of leather and called a
"tunnel loop" model, a strip of leather interconnecting the thumb and
forefinger and called a "sewn-in web" model as in many of the Pre-War
models, a center member protruding from the glove pocket creating a six
finger appearance or a series of single, double or triple wall leather
panels. Today, infield and outfield model gloves differ greatly, much
more so than vintage gloves ever did. Everything we sell in our store is
US made unless otherwise stated.
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