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Winfield was a line of Juvenile, toy
and discount store quality baseball
equipment carried by the
"Five-and-Dimes" variety store F. W.
Woolworth Company. The in-store brand
seems to have been taken from the
founder, Frank Winfield Woolworth's
middle name. The Winfield F33 Juvenile
baseball gloves were sold separately,
and as part of a "Junior Baseball Set"
that included a baseball & bat. Other
Winfield gloves include;
216 Juvenile catchers mitt, F60
Pafko Model, F60 Kaline Model, F64V
Boone Model, F430 Reese Model, F25
League Model, F17 Junior Model, C213
catchers mitt, C152 catchers mitt, C88
Boys League catchers mitt, B44 Base
Mitt, .
The Winfield brand developed into a
larger line of sporting goods that was
also sold by Woolco, a
subsidiary of the F. W.
Woolworth Company, which was founded in
1962. The
Winfield line of sporting goods carried
by Woolco included; tennis rackets &
balls, Soccer balls, bicycle
accessories, badminton, dartboard sets,
table tennis sets, binoculars, jump
ropes, boxing gloves, sports shoes,
baseball bats, and gloves. The Winfield
"Diamond Pro" line of baseball gloves
was introduced around 1975. The Woolco company
closed it's U.S. stores in 1983, while
the parent company F.W. Woolworth,
closed in 1997.
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