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Wilson Baseball Mitt, Model No. 638, Virgil Barnes Endorsement.
Single tunnel web connects the forefinger and thumb with
lace passed through sewn in loops. Player endorsements
are more common. |
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| Tunnel loop web circa
1920s elongated loops were sewn in directly to the thumb
and forefinger through which passed a simple rawhide
lace. |
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Rawlings Bill Doak baseball
glove..Model #5BD
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Earlier
Bill doak Model circa 1922 web missing
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| The largest improvement
ever in glove design happened in 1920, when Bill Doak, a
journeyman pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals,
approached Rawlings with an idea for a web laced between
the first finger and thumb. Before Doak's invention,
gloves were primarily protective equipment that kept
fielders' hands and fingers from being hurt by hard hit
balls. Doak developed the idea of putting a substantial
webbing between the glove's thumb and first finger to
form a substantial pre-formed pocket in which to catch
the ball. The Rawlings "Bill Doak" model that
was first introduced in 1920 was so revolutionary that
it remained available until 1953 with only minor
modifications. Doak's invention was the ancestor of all
modern gloves. |
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| 1920s
Loops sewn into forefinger, and thumb are connected by
lace. the 1920s brought many experiment with web
design. |
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| Late 1920s Hutch
- William Wright Regan endorsed buckle back glove model # 736-V Dual Vertical Tunnel |
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Random
samples of Gloves and Mitts from this era
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In
1925 Thomas E. Wilson Co. is replaced with Wilson-Western Sporting Goods
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1927 advertisement for D&M Glove model G75.
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Mike Cvengros
Wilson model K3090
circa 1923- 1929
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This 1921 Reach Advertisement show that the 1
inch web workman style gloves are still being made.
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