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Oldies Playing with Oldies, Annual 4th of July "Oldtimers Game"

There is a designated beater oldtimer 20s-50s glove at each position, and you have to rotate positions each inning. Before the game you draw a red or black card numbered 1-9 which determines your team (red or black), starting fielding position (1 = pitcher, 2 catcher, etc), and batting order number.

Fourth of July, 2007

	Good Guys!			Bad Guys!
	Everyone had an inning pitching and you had to wear an old flannel jersey and old hat. They looked great but in the near 100 degree weather it added a little to the experience. I think I felt like David Wells always feels.			Terry seemed to get a kick out of this picture which to him suggests that someone just teed off on one of my pitches. I recall that it was a routine, lazy, can-of-corn pop fly, but that maybe revisionist history on my part (it's my website). Note, check out the no web on this glove ... this was the toughest glove to catch with. Need to get Terry a lacing needle.
	An umpire, spectators, and even the press was there this time. Really. Check out the LA Daily news article and pictures they had on their website (links below).			I took this picture while in left field and immediately had to drop my camera (literally on the grass ... priorities) as the batter rifled a shot at me. I actually made the catch, but I think my heart skipped a beat or two.

The LA Daily News article talked about the game and glove collecting: Article and some preat pics: Pictures

Fourth of July, 2005

Terry O'Connell had been running his annual Oltimers game for over a decade but took several years off. He restarted the tradition he says partially inspired by this website (cool!).

Glove Displays

After years of slowly altering my displays a little at a time, I took one weekend in March and changed them all. Here's one of the new displays. I'll update a new display each time I change my Featured page. This one is a great shaped cabinet on my upstairs hall. Check out the twin crescent fielders.

Display #4
I don't have the greatest bat collection in the world but have some decent decal and mushroom bats.

Display #3

Display #2

Display #1

Huge Trades

Pictures of some of the largest trades I've been a part of ... so far.

The National Sports Convention, 2006

I had a blast as a dealer at the National in Anaheim, 2006 ... my first show as a dealer.

	It was a ton of work getting the items ready for the National, including several days of conditioning and/or lacing.				I shared the booth with my friend Tom (see Past Times below) which I think provided for a good variety of stuff.
	Considering we sort of did it on the cheap (not renting any additional cabinets, etc), we were told by many that it was one of the two best looking booths.				I brought 150 gloves of all ages, types, and condition, including three Ruths, a Foxx, Alexander, Winchester, etc.
	I even made available three of my favorites at "back away from my favorite" prices (I'm still glad they didn't sell).				It was a great experience and I met lots of great collectors and dealers. See www.sportsantiques.com/2006national.htm for other pictures.

Glove Get-Together

A picture from the glove collector get-together at my place in July of 2000 during the National Sports Convention weekend.

Padres Owners Suite

	Padres stadium has a couple real nice displays.			Including several nice old gloves, masks, bats, and uniforms.
	The owner's suite had some pretty decent gloves in their display.			The suite itself had a great view right next to the press box and was stocked with all kinds of goodies.

Angels Shrine

Congratulations to the 2002 California Angels, World Series Champions!

Looking back through the photos is when I first realized we captured the moment before Garret's Series winning double.

Mom worked part time at the stadium. Her booth was awesome, and it made several news reports and the commemorative DVDs. Check out the voodoo doll (which apparantly worked).

Birthday, Christmas, or Just-because Hinting Techniques

OK, so maybe it doesn't go over so well giving yourself a nice gift. And buying your wife a glove raises suspicion, to say the least. Here are some tips to subtly drop the hint to a loved one what you'd really like for Christmas, your birthday, or whatever. Believe you me, they are always looking for hints.

      1) Leave an email or listing somewhere where it can be found. If this doesn't
               work try posting it on the refridgerator door.
      2) Contact me from a loved one's email ID and have me reply to it.
      3) Have me send a list via regular mail in both of your names (let the loved
              one open it).

Good luck. I'd love to hear some of your success stories.

Glove Display Gloves

Sold 15 or so miscellaneous display collectibles to a Southern, CA batting cage/academy.

I'm looking to thin down some more, so please contact me if you are looking to put together a nice old display.

Baseball Links

Check out these other great baseball sites:

The GloveCollector Newsletter

Jim Daniel's Vintage Gloves

Glove Discussion Board

Fred Lowman Bat Restoration

Bruce's Gloves

Joe's Collection

Collecting Discussion Board

Carlton's The National Convention Website

Mike Tinney's Vintage Gloves

J.T.s Collectibles

Baseball Glove Links

Skilton's Baseball Links

Favorite Nicknames

Below are my top nine favorite nicknames on gloves that I own. Each nickname is included as part of the endorsement.

      "Mule" Haas (George)
      "Rip" Radcliff
      "Bubbles" Hargrave (George)
      "Rube" Walker (Albert)
      "Gabby" Hartnett (Leo)
      "Biff" Berger (Walter)
      "Jelly" Sorelle
      "Dazzy" Vance (Clarence)
      "Pee Wee" Reese (Harold)

Antique Flea Markets

In Southern California we have antique swap meets on a regular basis. The supply of gloves is limited and the competition is fierce, but some quality items are still found by some of my friendly competition. It's quite a sight to watch several glove collectors shoot off in ten different directions when the doors open (like a shotgun blast). Needless to say, I get real excited for the other collector when they find an item seconds before I would have (OK, so maybe there is a little jealousy but we do get along surpisingly well).

Drop me a note when you are coming to the area and will shoot off in different directions together (and you can beat me to some great stuff like the others). Here are some photos from one of my latest glove quests to prove that I do on occasion drag myself out of bed at the crack of dawn in search of the elusive leather.

"There's gold in them there hills!"

This is truly the best time to get there (so I've been told)

Spring Training

Pictures from my annual vacation in Phoenix for Spring Training:

A statue entitled "First Mitt" at the Mariners/Padres stadium in Peoria

I inadvertantly caught a Cubs Grand Slam as I attemped to photograph a vendor pouring some Old Style (that's his arm)

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