Don Mattingly Oddball Item

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Eric72

My father collected Don Mattingly cards and oddball items. He primarily did this during the height of the junk wax era. Among the many things he picked up was this item.

I believe it's a glove tag, the type which would be hanging on a baseball glove when it was brand new.

According to a few sellers online, this was available across several years.

Does anyone know how to definitively assign a year to this item?

These tags were used from 86-88 and then they switched to black bordered version with a full picture. I don’t know enough of each version to id the year. There are numerous versions over the years depending on the glove and year. Most are made in Taiwan, some Korea. I think the earliest have a small sticker stating the product was made in Korea and this is the later version. I think they had their hands slapped for not adding country of manufacture and did the sticker to fix it.

You would need to find a serious 80s glove collector to get the version for each year down perfectly