Gotta be a fake A2000 right?

[freelanceterry]

Browsing gloves for the boy on the bay when I came across this a2000.
Looks super cheap - cheap leather - cheap stampings.

Am I wrong?


http://www.*********/itm/WILSON-A20...all_Softball_Gloves_Mitts&hash=item3cc80fc4a8

 

[position3]

Item number?

 

[ibjr25]

Actually, I think that's legit. Just an older model of course..

 

[mr.augie]

Browsing gloves for the boy on the bay when I came across this a2000.
Looks super cheap - cheap leather - cheap stampings.

Am I wrong?


http://www.*********/itm/WILSON-A20...all_Softball_Gloves_Mitts&hash=item3cc80fc4a8

nah, it's not fake ..counterfeiting baseball gloves isn't a particularly lucrative business

 

[Rous]

Maybe not anymore, but counterfeit Wilson A2000s (from the 1970s-80s) show up regularly on the bay (or even Wilson 8000s!!). "Made in Korea" is one giveaway, but others are more subtle. The link does not work, so I don't know about this one.

 

[ibjr25]

Item number: 261054514344

All ya have to do it replace the asterisks with "e b a y.com"

 

[Rous]

Ah, right! Ok, this exact same conversation went on over at GWF about 18 months ago. A guy bought one of this exact same glove (for his son, popular idea!) and said it felt like crap. I think the consensus was that it was legit, but not a particularly good example of an A2000.

Gold stamping NEVER looks good on a glove (silver either), IMO. Looks cheap when new, and looks worse with wear, until it all wears off. I am not sure why that idea lasted for so long.

 

[KannonsDad]

Looks legit to me.

 

[fredderf]

Looks legit to me too, just that crappy hard leather. There were a few bad years of those.

Looks nice though
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[mr.augie]

Gold stamping NEVER looks good on a glove (silver either), IMO. Looks cheap when new, and looks worse with wear, until it all wears off. I am not sure why that idea lasted for so long.

completely agree

 

[Salamander]

That couch looks terribly uncomfortable

 

[KannonsDad]

That couch looks terribly uncomfortable

It's made from the finest of burlaps.

 

[tjsully47]

That glove looks very similar to the Barry Larkin 1440 reissue model that's currently out now .