What was your first glove?

[Gloves22]

I'm not 100% positive about mine, but I believe it was a Franklin Mike Schmidt model...wish i still had it!

[Tmbrguy]

and thats about all I remember, it was a 12 inch model that I got in 3rd grade (1973) and used it through High School, when I headed off to college I donated it and my (1975) spaulding catchers mit to the local legaue. Now that I have kids, oh do I wish I had them back. Oh,well... you make your decisions with the best information you have at the moment, no sense in looking back.

[ksbs99]

My first glove in 1966 was a wilson Ron Santo glove .

[TallPaul]

I sure wish I knew. I was a kid, it was the 60s, so I am thinking may have been a Wilson. Wish I still had it. Anyway my first glove that I remember is a Rawlings Player Series I bought last fall to practice. It fit nicely and closed easily, but being pleather, is not for long term.

Now my first glove that I used in a game (as I never really played a game as a kid, just fooling around, 500, catch, etc.) was this August and it was a used Rawlings RBG4 13".

[dpwls]

The first glove that was actually mine (and not a hand-me-down from my dad) was a Mizuno. I don't even remember the model name, but it was one of the first gloves to incorporate kevlar, or some similar type of material on the back of the glove to reduce the weight. They were SUPER popular when I was a kid in little league and I still remember how excited I was when I got it. After all that excitement though, I ended up not liking the glove very much. As cool as it looked (all black with the kevlar mesh back), once it was broken in it was super floppy and didn't serve me very well as an infielder. Oh well, I sure looked cool... until someone hit me a grounder!

The first glove I bought with my own money was a Rawlings American Series 12" T web 3rd baseman's glove. I got it my first year in Babe Ruth League at the local sporting goods store in my home town (Haugen's in Glendale, CA) for $50 (which seemed SO expensive back then). I LOVED that glove and became a Rawlings glove snob for the next 15 years. I still have it, but it's totally unusable today. Of course, in those days I was using liberal amounts of petroleum based mink oil to maintain it... so today the leather is completely deteriorated in spots. It wasn't til years later that I learned petroleum eats leather.

[MAS]

I think I was 8 when my dad gave me his old Hawthorne baseball glove. (I think it was probably a late 1950's or early 1960's model.)

Took me to the store to look at gloves and then said if I didn't find one I liked, I could have his old glove and he would pick out a new one. That was back in the time when gloves actually had to be broken in, so as an 8 year old I thought the old glove that was already soft was the way to go.

I still have that old Hawthorne glove.