Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

The baseball team that would be known as the Brooklyn Dodgers (now the Los Angeles Dodgers) was called the Brooklyn Robins from 1914 to 1931, in honor of its manager, Wilbert Robinson.

A North Carolina farm boy and one of seven brothers, Rick Ferrell saved pennies to buy his first catcher's mitt for $1.50....My how things have changed

I did not know...

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drfreeze49 wrote:A North Carolina farm boy and one of seven brothers, Rick Ferrell saved pennies to buy his first catcher's mitt for $1.50....My how things have changed

If we figure that Ferrell was buying his mitt in 1915 (10-year-old boy born in 1905) for $1.50, then by today's standards he would be paying $35.25 (according to an inflation calculator). Is that cheap or expensive (I'm assuming cheap, but I haven't bought a glove or a mitt in what seems to be several lifetimes)?

Bill

george barnard wrote:

drfreeze49 wrote:A North Carolina farm boy and one of seven brothers, Rick Ferrell saved pennies to buy his first catcher's mitt for $1.50....My how things have changed

If we figure that Ferrell was buying his mitt in 1915 (10-year-old boy born in 1905) for $1.50, then by today's standards he would be paying $35.25 (according to an inflation calculator). Is that cheap or expensive (I'm assuming cheap, but I haven't bought a glove or a mitt in what seems to be several lifetimes)?

Bill

It's pretty cheap. Even the kid's mitts I buy to drop off at the ballpark for the MLB charity drives run $40 or so.

Easy to spend a couple hundred these days on a good glove. And a catchers mitt is generally the most expensive.

$35 or so for a catchers mitt is pretty cheap by today's prices!

there's a lot more to a catchers mitt nowadays. i remember putting cardboard, leather, dish towels, etc. in my mitt to have extra padding. also, put a couple of fingers on the back of the mitt to lessen the pain.