Vintage Spit- Ginger Leather Baseball Glove

Description: The item is a vintage split-finger leather baseball glove, a classic style easily recognizable by the distinct separation of the fingers and a minimal web pattern.

Dimensions: wrist to Finger 10.5”       Across Palm 9”

Current Item Condition: It features heavy, dark brown patinated leather, visible scuffing, and aged perimeter lacing consistent with decades of use. Generic or heavily worn mid-century models without legible stamps. Some of the stitching is coming undone around the wrist.

History: This specific design—lacking a modern web or inter-finger lacing—strongly aligns with late 1930s to 1950s production. Prior to the late 1940s, fielders' gloves did not tie the fingers together, leading to the "split-finger" nickname. Gloves from this time were much smaller than modern ones, functioning more like padded extensions of the hand to knock down the ball rather than deep pockets designed to trap it automatically. Old gloves are popular choices for historical films, period dramas, or sports biopics trying to accurately recreate twentieth-century baseball Americana.