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NEWSLETTER |
September 2021 |
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Lesser-Known and Privately Branded |
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Steven KeyMan |
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Baseball Gloves -
By Steven KeyMan |
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Founder of
Keymancollectibles.com,
and a long time
collector, Steven
KeyMan has more than 30
years of experience in
researching, and
cataloging information
on Baseball
Memorabilia.
Researching his own personal
collection, and helping others find
information on their
collectibles, the
website grew into the
largest online resource
for baseball
memorabilia |
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Steven: Direct your questions or feedback,
about Baseball Memorabilia to Steven KeyMan
Steve@keymancollectibles.com You can also Send
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The Miscellaneous & Store
Brand Baseball Glove Guide will
help identify and date your
miscellaneous and lesser-known
branded baseball gloves. A catalog
of private in-store brands of
baseball gloves sold by; hardware,
drug, discount, and department
stores. Samples with links lead to
additional company information on
baseball glove manufactures,
retailers, and wholesale
distributors.
Established in 1897,
Alex Taylor & Co. was a major
Sporting Goods store located in NY. The company
carried a large line of equipment
for a variety of sports that
included; basketball, lacrosse,
fencing, skiing, golf, tennis,
Football & baseball. It is not
known when the company went out of
business but like most of the independent outlets, they most likely succumbed to the onset of the large
chains.
American Eagle
was the in-store
brand used on baseball gloves sold
in the Spiegel mail order catalog.
Most of the gloves were offered in
the catalogs during the 1940's and
1950's. Baseball glove endorsed
models included; Al Simmons, Bill Werber, Dick Culler No. 600, Hoot
Evers No. 1709, Jelly Sorelle No.
53V7003, and the 1951 issue Warren
Spahn no. 7025, manufactured by
Hutch.
American Royale was the in-store
brand used on baseball gloves sold
by Pamida Department Stores. The
chain store was Gibson's Discount
center's largest franchisee to
withdraw from the Gibson chain
around 1977. Pamida was sold in
1981. The discount store quality
baseball gloves where imported and
featured only "Pro Model" Fielders
Gloves. First base, and
catchers mitts were not produced.
 The
American Sporting Goods Co. was
established by Harold Siebens in St. Louis MO.
The company operated from about
1933 until 1948 when Sieben sold
the company because of health
reason. Privately
branded American Sporting Goods Co.
baseball Gloves produced by Wilson
include a N-7, "Williams Model"
block letter endorsement. The GX-3
was produced by the Denkert
Sporting Goods Co.
Ed Maynard Inc. of Plymouth New
Hampshire was a company started up
in 1932, by John Edward Maynard,
son of John Fernando Maynard,
co-founder of the Draper and
Maynard Sporting Goods Co. Ed
Maynard's Sporting Goods company,
was a manufacturer of outdoor
clothing, and of sports equipment
that included tennis rackets, Skis,
uniforms, baseball bats and gloves.
Firestone Olympian
was the private
in store brand sold by Firestone
Home and Auto Supply stores.
Firestone sold a line of outdoor
equipment, and sporting goods, made
by some of the major sporting good
companies.
Endorsed models include; Charlie Keeler, Rudy York, Phil Rizzuto, Bob
Doerr, Phil Masi Johnny Mize, and
Vince DiMaggio.
Great Western Athletic Goods of
Chicago was primarily a uniform
manufacturer that operated out of
Chicago, Illinois. Thomas E. Wilson
& Co. Athletic Goods wanting to
establish a niche in the uniform
market, came to a distribution
agreement with Great Western in
1925. Wilson produced Great Western
branded baseball equipment for the
GW catalog, with the GW script
logo.
 The
Johnny Walker brand was a line of
baseball gloves that were distributed
to, and sold in Gibson's Discount
Centers from 1960-1977. Although the majority of
gloves were imported from Japan or
Korea, the Denkert Sporting Goods
Co. manufactured 3 signature
models; Monte Irvin fielders glove,
Bill Goodman first base mitt, and
Del Crandall catchers mitt, under
the Johnny Walker brand name.
 In 1952, the
Kennedy Sporting
Goods MFG Co., a new company headed
by J. Lawrence Kennedy purchased
the Ken-Wel Sporting Goods Co. of
Utica, from the president of the
company Allen Kennedy. Lawrence
Kennedy was not related to the Ken-Wel
Kennedy brothers. The Ken-Wel
building was not part of the
purchased, which remained in the
ownership of the firm selling the
business.
The new company leased the space in the building and continued to produce
the company's brands. “Kennedy”
replaced the “Ken-Wel” brand name
on some of the products. The
company operated until 1960.
 Kent was a manufacture and
distributor of discount store
sporting goods from the late 1960's
to the 1980's. Established in 1959,
the
Kent Sporting Goods Company,
Inc. originally based in
Batesville, Mississippi was founded
as a subsidiary of Eagle Rubber
Company, a manufacturer of football
gear, helmets and uniforms.
Products included; baseballs,
softballs, and baseball gloves.
 Founded in 1876 the
McKinnon Dash Co. was a
manufacturer of dashboards for
horse drawn buggies. The company
also manufactured other products
such as bicycles, canvas goods and
welded chain. In 1927, the McKinnon
Dash Co. purchased Bon Tober
Sporting Goods, a manufacture of
baseball gloves and balls. After
1930 McKinnon began producing a
complete line of leather sporting
goods
Marathon is the in-store brand of
Sporting Goods sold in the
Montgomery Ward mail order catalog.
Montgomery Ward also carried a line
of baseball gloves with the private
labeled
Marathon Brand, Hawthorne, Wards/Hawthorne, as well as a
Montgomery Ward brand that included
gloves imported from Korea. The
earliest baseball gloves feature
the Marathon Trademark Shield logo.
 Pennant was a brand of sporting
goods sold in the Butler Brothers
general merchandise mail order
catalog. Their catalog consisted of
a full line of Pennant brand
sporting goods. The company carried
baseball equipment made by major
sporting good manufactures such as
Spalding, Reach, and the Thomas E.
Wilson Co. makers of the Pennant
brand label. Rawlings might have
produced gloves in the later years.
Founded in 1880, the Ripon Knitting
Works company of Wisconsin
manufactured an extensive line of
casual footwear, slippers socks,
hosiery, gloves and mittens. In
1942 the company won a contract to
manufacture Mitten shells for the
U.S. Army and Navy. They also
started producing baseball gloves
for the Army during the war. After
the war in 1946 Ripon issued their
first Sporting Goods catalog.
Models featured in their catalogs issue through 1946, and 1948 include,
The No. 10Z - Zipper Heel,
No. 42 -
ambidextrous baseball glove, and
No. 40, raised pad softball glove.
Western Auto Supply Company—known
more widely as Western Auto—was a
specialty retail chain of stores
that supplied automobile parts and
accessories. Western Auto also sold
sporting goods, dating back to
about the 1930's or '40's using the
"Western's" private store brand.
Gloves were manufactured by the
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. By the
mid 1950's Western Auto switched to
the Revelation brand.
Winfield was a line of
Juvenile, toy and discount store
quality baseball gloves carried by
the "Five-and-Dimes" variety store
F. W. Woolworth Company. The brand
seems to have been taken from the
founder, Frank Winfield Woolworth's
middle name. The baseball gloves
were also part of "Junior Baseball
Sets" that also included a baseball
& wooden Winfield baseball bat.
Woolworth, closed in 1997.
The Woolco company, founded in 1962 by the Woolworth Company, also carried
the Winfield Diamond-Pro line of
baseball gloves.
The
Wimberly-Thomas Hardware Company,
Inc. was founded as the May and
Thomas Hardware Company in 1887.
T. Felton Wimberly, a bookkeeper with
May and Thomas, bought May's
interest in the company in 1890.The
company served both the retail and
wholesale business of Birmingham.
The Wholesale Hardware Company
offered a wide range of products to
outlets in Alabama, Florida, and
Mississippi, which included
baseball gloves.
Founded in 1883 the Rockford,
Michigan shoe manufacturer became
the
Wolverine shoe & tanning corp.
in 1921. When the Great Depression
hit, the company made baseball
gloves on the side.
During World War II, Wolverine worked for the U.S. Navy, developing
pigskin gloves. In 1959, Wolverine
launched the Hush Puppies brand of
casual shoes. Baseball glove models include the "Wolverine Tiger Line," (1934 Tigers),
No. Y22 Mickey Cochrane catchers
mitt, No. K348 Jerry (Gee) Walker,
Charlie Gehringer, and Pete Fox. Al
Van Camp base mitt, No. 327
Softball mitt.
Incorporated in 1906 the Mortimer
Newman Company, a manufacture of
golf caps, conducted business as
the Moneco Company of New Haven.
Yale is the brand name for the
Moneco Company, a manufacture
of Juvenile sporting goods, that
included, baseball gloves, punching
bags, footballs, boxing gloves
By the 1940's the Moneco Co. was
distributing their athletic
equipment nation wide.
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