Mickey Mantle GC1308 Baseball glove

Western Auto Supply Company—known more widely as Western Auto—was a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories. Western Auto primarily sold products under their own private labels, including tires, batteries, electronics, appliances, and tools. Western Auto also sold sporting goods, using the "Western's" private store brand. By the mid 1950's Western Auto switched to the Revelation brand of Sporting goods which also had the circle arrow logo. The circle arrow was removed around 1965. In 1988, Sears Roebuck purchased Western Auto.

The Mickey Mantle Revelation GC 1308 fielders glove was produced in the mid to late 1950s by Rawlings. Denkert Sporting Goods, also manufactured baseball gloves for Western Auto, including the Mickey Mantle Revelation G1319, about the same time. The Mickey Mantle G1319 was part of their 48 Anniversary sale in 1957, where a "FREE! Large size autographed picture of Mickey Mantle suitable for framing!" was offed. There are ads which do not list the model number, leaving open the possibility that the Free pictures were also given away with other Mickey Mantle gloves as well.

Mickey Mantle Revelation No. GC 1308 Baseball Glove


Mickey Mantle Revelation GC1308 Fielders Glove Back	1957 Newspaper Ad

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