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04-29-2015, 10:01 AM #8
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Re: Ongoing Story of my Rick Ankiel Holy Grail (Long-Read)
Awesome, great observation! You're right, the embroidery isn't completely parallel with the seam. It's not super evident, but definitely noticeable if you are really looking at it. The problem is finding Hi-Res pictures from that time period. The angles are always tough and most of the cards aren't really close enough to make a definitive match. This definitely helps a lot though!
I wish I could find some game or video archives from the 1999 season to see if I can't match them up; however, I can't hardly find anything prior to 2004 for the Cardinals. It's unbelievable to me in our day of internet-everything that there aren't archived pictures, game footage, videos, etc sitting out there somewhere. Maybe there is and I'm just not great at digging around, but all my searches have come up empty.
I think my saving grace will be able to show it to Rick in person. He still may not be able to 100% attest to the fact that this is the exact glove he broke into the majors with, but I'm fairly certain he will at least be able to tell me whether or not it is one of his legit gamers. I'm sure he's gone through many more gloves in his lifetime than me, but I feel like I could positively identify a glove that I used at any point in my life vs. a glove that wasn't mine.