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Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.
Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.
Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.
Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.
Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.
Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.

Mickey Mantle Rawlings XPGH signed baseball glove mitt. Rare, like game-used.

$ 7920

Availability: 72 in stock
  • Player: Mickey Mantle
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Vintage: Yes
  • Brand: Rawlings

    Description

    It’s the closest 99.999% of collectors will ever get to an actual
    Mantle
    gamer, an almost exact replica of the most famous glove in the hobby. Since Billy Crystal paid 9,000 in the 1999 Halper auction (the equivalent of 4,000 today)
    for a spectacular early 1960s game-used glove, an XPGH with
    Mantle
    ’s distinctive and beautiful spiral web, the glove has only grown in iconic status.
    Mantle
    was the only player to use this model besides a couple of teammates and, in 1969, Brooks Robinson.
    Mantle
    autographed the glove at some point.
    In 1968, Rawlings experimented with a high-end retail model that is indistinguishable from the retail thing. Very few were made and even fewer survived, just a handful; according to John Taube, PSA/DNA glove authenticator, who actually bought one in 1968 to use in high school.
    This glove is one of a few signed personal models in the hobby and the only signed example of
    Mantle
    ’s actual model.
    As the PSA/DNA letter signed by Steve Grade notes, the signature rates about a six due to the leather’s oil surface. The glove itself is in excellent condition with strong stampings, all original lacing (including the spiral web), and a nice Rawlings patch.