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Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball - Video: "When I first started playing ball, about 1946, I used a big Trapper mitt at first base.
I’d snag everything one-handed.
In 1939, they used those small gloves with the five stubby fingers and no webbing.
In the movie, we use the same kind.
So just about the first ball hit to me in the outfield, I wave everybody off and yell, ‘I got it.’
It looked like an easy catch.
The ball bounced off that little glove and hit me right on the head.
It was a very small glove, not much bigger than your hand.
When the ball would come to you, you’d put that glove on it and that thing went through the fingers… and a couple good bounces on the head taught you to be very careful you didn’t put your glove out in front of your face.
You caught it on the side and you took it.
Two days is all we had with ‘Spec’ Shea.
The throwing came back to me pretty quickly. I’d done so much of it as a kid.
But I had to learn the double-pump windup that pitchers used in the ‘20s.”
Robert Redford
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