This online auction couldn’t come at a better time for the Robinson family, putting up Jackie’s World Series, game-worn glove just as his biographical movie, “42,” is released. No question the glove was used—hard and long. Steiner Sports Auctions says it was found in an office Robinson once rented. It was authenticated by photo matching. High estimate is $1m.
Today’s players, with freebies and endorsements, may have 5 or 6 gloves in a season. In Robinson’s day many players kept the same glove for years. Robinson wore it in the Dodgers’ 1955 World Series against the Yanks—the only Series the Dodgers ever won in Brooklyn. The online auction starts May 1 and runs for a month.
