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“When I was older, dad gave me his blue plastic container. Keeping it all get to bring them down at least once a

catcher’s mitt. That’s the one I started in the container enables him to carry season to look at them.”
with,” said Tony, who still has the his collection with him on trips and to
Collecting gloves brings back baseball’s
first baseman’s mitt he played with shows.
best memories for Gianninoto and those
at Chesapeake College and Salisbury
“Every year, the Federalsburg Historical lucky enough for him to share them
University.
Society holds a hobby fair. I like to with.
Th e fi rst glove he bought was a Johnny exhibit my collection each year. It gives “I find that people enjoy seeing the
Bench’s catcher’s mitt. me a chance to get my collection out and collection and sharing them brings

show them off ,” said Tony. “That way, I
His mitts are not autographed by the additional enjoyment to me,” he said.
player personally, but rather, are the
model manufactured by the glove maker
with the player’s facsimile autograph on Dave’s David Grinavic,
it. Among the gloves he has are a Brooks ASE Master Technician
Robinson third baseman’s glove, circa Riverside 32600 Main St.
1962, a Richie Ashburn glove, a Harvey Queen Anne, MD 21657
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He has a number of left handed gloves,
not surprising because Tony is a left y.
Included in Gianninoto’ s collection
are gloves manufactured by the George
A. Reach Sporting Goods company in

Greensboro. The company – formerly the
A.I. Reach (Sporting Goods) Company
of Philadelphia, operated in Greensboro
from 1917 to 1958 when it was sold and
moved to Ohio and Japan. Some of his Greensboro Market 2021
gloves were likely made in Greensboro, 13699 Greensboro Road, Greensboro
while others bore the Greensboro stamp
but might have been made elsewhere.
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“When I was a kid, they (The Reach April 3rd through November 1st
Company) had a factory in Greensboro,”
he said. “About 10 years ago I picked up 9 AM - Noon
a glove in Springfield, Ohio that had
stamping on it from Greensboro. I paid
$20 for it. I also found a Reach baseball Vendors • Crafters • and More
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Gianninoto said he is always keeping
his eye out for new additions to his
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collection, especially Orioles gloves
from the sixties and seventies, and has
his collection stored neatly into a large

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