What would a glove that Lou Gehrig
wore when he played at Columbia
be worth in today’s collectible market?
I think I know where you can lay
your hands on a couple of them . . . if you’ve got a jackhammer and the nerves
of a cat burglar.
According to a short item in the
“Major Flashes” roundup column of the April12, 1949, issue of The Sporting News, there are gloves
(plural) stowed away in a time capsule at the school.
The article read, “The gloves used
by Lou Gehrig, late first baseman of the Yankees, when he played with the Lions
in 1923, are among the athletic memorabilia sealed in the new fieldhouse wall
at Columbia University
Even if the box’s location isn’t
marked with a plaque or something, today’s state of the art metal detectors
should be able to pinpoint its location.
How the leather has held up over
60+ years is anybody’s guess.
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