early card w/player wearing batting glove

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Posted By: dennis

if you have 1961 topps cards or a set chances are that you have looked at this card a # of times.(esp. since it is a low #) did you notice jr's wearing a batting glove? i don't think these caught on till the mid 60s and now it would be strange to see a player not wearing one. anyone have an earlier image of a player wearing a batting glove?

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Posted By: Rob Ray

What an interesting thread!
I always thought Rusty Staub and Ken "hawk" Harrelson wwere two of the earlier glove-wearers. Don't know why I remember this,I just do. I remember Staub wearing his white single-glove playing for mets in early 70s,but I'm sure there must have been many others seeings as Romano was wearing this one way back in '61...
rob

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Posted By: Greg

In the newly released Home Run Derby dvds from 1959, some of the players are wearing "batting gloves", although I think they are actually golf gloves.

Greg

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

Is it possible that's not a batting glove Romano is wearing, but rather a glove worn inside his catcher's mitt?

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Posted By: dennis

dug this article up seems to fit here.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070820&content_id=2160738&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=ml adam any pics of lefty o'doul with a batting glove on?

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Posted By: Roy

Some reports that I read many years ago indicated that the first major leaguer to regularly wear a batting glove - one only - was Jackie Brandt of the Baltimore Orioles. He was considered something of a flake - not unlike Hawk Harrelson - so there may be something to the story.

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Posted By: DD

An underrated hitter, and all time tough guy team for me, right up there with Klu. I rarely, if ever, saw him with long sleeves on. I grew up in Queens, so I remember how brutal it could be in April and September (and October in 1973).

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Posted By: Jim VB

Rusty is the answer to one of my favorite trivia questions. Who was the only major league player to ever get 500+ hits with each of four different teams? (And 100+ with a fifth team.)