No disrespect to "the man nobody knew". Bill Dickey. I have never been sure why Bill Dickey received that nickname noted above. Of course I wasn't even a gleam in my daddy's eye when Bill Dickey played. But I sure as hell knew who he was was very well when I was a kid. In fact my first two years in Little League. I used a Bill Dickey model catcher's glove on special occasions. Like when I could afford to drop a couple balls, because it was so outdated it had no real web to speak of. The Bill Dickey model glove of the 50s/early-mid 60's, was like catching a baseball with a fucking pancake... The Yogi Berra model catcher's glove was not much better. Instead of a pancake it was like catching a baseball with a waffle a round iron waffle.... Syrup would of been the Pine Tar of its day.; syrup the perfect camouflage for a Pancake Glove, with a pocket big enough only 4A golf ball. The webs on those gloves had a 1 and 1/2 * 2 and 1/2 inch strip of leather, held together across the bridge with leather string. A real joke of a glove for the players of its time. For that much all notes and gloves of the fthe 4 finger variety were a joke throughout the 50s. It was no easier to use a 4 finger glove than a 3 finger oh, and they both looked almost identical
PS- When you try on the aforementioned gloves it makes you really appreciate and respect even more, the players who had to wear those hand rags, make a 'mazing catches too.
