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The Midwest
Sporting Goods Mfg. Co. was located at
2200 N Eleventh Street Milwaukee
Wisconsin. The company manufactured
Juvenile and low quality
children's baseball gloves during the
late 1930s through the 1950s. These gloves
would have been sold in five-and-dime,
discount stores such as Woolworths. The
Midwest Sporting Goods MFG. Co., also
produced baseball gloves for
Woolworth's using their privately
branded Winfield line.
Parallel Midco-Winfield
baseball glove models include: F64V
Boone Model; and the F33 fielders
glove, which is commonly mistaken for a
1920s-1930s model. The F33 fielders
gloves, with the tunnel loop web, were
in-fact issued in the late 1940s-1950s.
Most of the juvenile gloves were made
with out-dated web styles, years or
decades later.
There were two different MIDCO trademark logos used. The earliest was an
oval stamping reading "Midwest Sorting
Goos MFG. Co." inside an outer rim,
with "MIDCO" in the center, TRADE"
above, and "MARK" below. Under the oval
is a rectangle which reads "Milwaukee
Wis." inside. The second logo simply
reads "MIDCO" in block letters.
Some 1950s models feature block letter, last name "Player Model"
endorsements. Manufacturers using only
the player's last name, followed by the
words "Model," "Type," or "Style,"
indicates that the manufacture did not
have permission to use the players
name.
MIDCO. baseball glove models include: F36V, F44 Spahn Model, F50, Burton Hickies F66, F55V Pafko
Model, Boone Model F64V, F64V Kuenn Model, Reese Model,
F29, 310, 700, 933, and League Model, fielders gloves. -
B124 Hodges Model, B80 baseman's mitt - C36, C211, C219,
317, catchers mitts.
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