Louisville Slugger Glove Cards

[4reals]

Very hard cards to find, good luck!

[autograf]

Good luck Phil. I look every day for those and Ventura.

[ALR-bishop]

My wife and her family were all shareholders in H&B which made the Louisville Slugger bats. Their grandfather was a major shareholder and director of the company. That connection scored us a lot of World Series tickets over the years

H&B has a very nice Museum in Louisville. Worth a visit if you are ever there. I asked the company Secretary why they did not have an exhibit of these cards like they do for the bats. I don't think it ever occurred to them. I asked if they had a master list of all the player cards they produced in Taiwan, the Philippines or elsewhere. They did not. It was of no real interest to anyone I talked to threre.

For the most part, the Louisville Slugger brand was sold by H&B to Wilson a couple of years back. The company really only owns the bat factory and Museum in Louisville now. It was always a family run business ( Hillerich as opposed to Bradsby) that was not up to the new competitors in the bat market.

Card history and documentation about what they produced did not seem important to anyone I could find. And whether there are 5 or 6 or more Hershiser variants clearly is of no interest to anyone at H & B

[sb1]

I realize this is not the proper place to buy and sell, but I have a group of nine different of these that I would like to sell and feel like they would not get any attention in the BST under normal conditions.

So... Here are 9 that I have.. please pm if interested., Not even sure how much. let's talk and make a deal for someone.

[autograf]

Arrgghh....no tough ones there!

And to Al's point about the Slugger Museum......if you're ever in the area, it is a great place for a couple hour visit. Muhammad Ali museum is within walking distance as is the Louisville Science Museum and the Frazier museum of history.....focusing heavily on guns and weaponry. All about 2 hour diversions. If you come to Louisville for the Hunts auction which is generally on the second Saturday of November, they always have free admission to the museum on that day.

And to Al's other point.....they don't have much in the ephemera type of stuff on display at the museum. It's all about the bats but some of the tangent stuff would make such a great display. No mini bats. No bat banks. No pens/pencils. Little to no advertising....posters, point of sale, die cut, etc. Love the place, but they could really add to it.

[autograf]

Picked up this lot on ebay just now and got this Todd Stottlemyre card in it. Not exactly like the series of Louisville Slugger cards but looks to be attempted to be close. Was printed in the Philippines. Why would they go all the way to the Philippines to print cards? Odd..........anyway, just FYI..........

[ArmourPhil]

Congrats...this is one of the mysterious TPX cards listed in the Std Catalog (2011) p 988 . I had never seen one before !

[Bran21334]

Just bought a Louisville slugger card on eBay. I'm trying to complete the set as much as possible, very hard to do. I found that PSA had a checklist, but it's very generic and not helpful. I keep finding variations, and different ones, (like the Babe Ruth card) I've long since stopped waiting, and just bought when I see I need it. I found this card by chance wasn't really thinking of it, just looked at was like OMG, most expensive one yet, though for good reason.