Clipping:A catcher's glove manufacturer
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| Date | Wednesday, February 29, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Caylor's column] Among the notes in your last issue is one describing a new catcher's glove. Do you know where more good catchers' gloves are made than in any other place? And how the maker came to secure the trade? I'll tell you. One spring day in 1882 Charley Snyder was walking up Main street in Cincinnati when his eyes rested upon a modest sign, which read:-- “--- Hermann, glove-maker.” He was in need of a glove, and he went in to solicit the making of one. He found a German and his wife in a small room about 10 by 15 feet in area and a patronage which was so meager they barely lived. After much trouble Snyder made them understand what it was he wanted. In a few days he had his glove, and it proved to be one of the best he ever used. Several visiting catchers saw the glove, got a point and, hunting up the German, left orders. Those gloves in turn secured other orders, and in a year or so the glove-maker had rented a neighboring building, employed help and was manufacturing gloves for players in almost every part of the country. Presently orders came in for supplies of gloves from Spalding Bros., Reach, Wright and other base ball supply dealers, so that in the years which have followed the German and his wife have made a small fortune. Snyder's visit to that little room on that spring morning nearly six years ago was like the fairy's visits of which we read. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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