Distressed Baseball Glove: Billy Loes Nokona TST50 Model

Description

Distressed
Baseball
Glove
Sale
:
Over 40 years ago I met a gentleman who was purchasing a restaurant, and he wanted to decorate it rather unusually.  He was a sports fan, and he desired to furnish his restaurant with all kinds of sports items, mainly sports equipment, and mainly using baseball and football themes, with a little basketball, hockey, golf, etc., thrown in.  He did not wish to use "high-end" items because he did not desire to worry about patrons walking off with his displays.  Actually, he basically "destroyed" his furnishings because he was not reluctant to literally nail things to the walls.  (And I do not mean
framed
items; I mean he was basically going to nail the items themselves to the walls, just to create an atmosphere that fellow sports lovers would feel comfortable to eat and drink in his establishment, and talk sports while patronizing his restaurant/bar.  He was all about merely creating the "right atmosphere" as he called it.  He was not discerning at all; if an item fit the atmosphere he tried to project, he would nail it to the wall in the various table booths he had set up.  I was one of his "finders" as he called me.  When I had any sports items to discard, I could always peddle them off to Freddy.  It so happens I have a couple of "Freddy items" that I feel are not worthy of legitimately listing on EBAY because of their condition, so I have reduced the price to almost nothing, and see if any more Freddys are out there desiring some props as "wall hangers".  Here's one on them:
This is a
Nokona TST50 Model Billy Loes
baseball glove.  This glove is just flat worn out.  It is not terribly bad looking on the side with the pocket, which shows Loes name on the pinkie finger, needing some leather lacing shore-up in the pocket area.  But once the viewer turns the glove over, it appears as if Freddy has already nailed this glove to his proverbial wall.  The flaws on the side where the player inserts his hand is a shambles.  There is a split in the leather where the wearer of the glove puts his thumb.  Some of the glove's stuffing by the hand area is exposed.  The Nokona label on the wrist strap has been long gone, and, to reiterate, it looks like this glove was nailed to and recently pulled off Freddy's wall.  This is another glove that appears as if it has been residing in the "vintage glove graveyard" for a long time now.
Billy
Loes
was a right-handed pitcher who spent eleven seasons in MLB, with the
Brooklyn
Dodgers
(1950, 1952–56),
Baltimore
Orioles
(1956–59), and
San Francisco Giants
(1960–61). He appeared in three World Series with the Dodgers, including the only one won by the franchise when it was based in Brooklyn in 1955.  In an 11-season career, Loes posted an
80–63 record
with 645 strikeouts and a 3.89 ERA.
Loes once said that he did not want to be a 20-game winner, "because then I'd be expected to do it every year."  His career high in wins came in 1953, when he went 14–8 for the pennant-winning Dodgers.  Billy Loes made the American League
All-Star
team in
1957
.
Thank you for viewing my EBAY-auction item.  (Please note:  I do
not
ship internationally.)  God bless.