In his prime Lefty Groves speed led one sportswriter to remark that Grove could throw a lambchop past a wolf. After leading the As to two World Championships in 1929-30 Grove was sold to the Red Sox after the 1933 season as Connie Mack was hit hard by the Depression. At 34 Griove reinvented himself as a control pitcher. Now relying on an improved curve ball and huge doses of experience and guile Grove made the All-Star team from 1935-39 and won 105 games and four ERA titles with Boston. In 1941 Groves 17th season he won his 300th and last game as a major league pitcher.

Offered here is a glove believed to have been utilized by Lefty Grove during the tail end of his career in Boston. The Rawlings professional model glove is a similar model to the glove worn by Grove in his final game on July 25 1941 in which he notched his 300th career win that was sold by SCP Auctions as part of the Grove estate collection in 2005. An accompanying letter of provenance states that this glove was purchased from a man named Joseph Hunt whom obtained it personally from Grove at Fenway Park in the late 1930s. An accompanying newspaper article from 2003 shows Joseph Hunt showing the Grove glove as part of a memorabilia exhibition in Pawtucket Rhode Island. The glove shows extensive usage wear with one section of the leather lacing that secures the top of the webbing having broken. The accompanying photo (shown) taken on March 11 1941 during Red Sox spring training captures Grove wearing a similar glove (same model with different style webbing). Includes a letter of provenance from the man who purchased the glove from Joseph Hunt and the aforementioned newspaper article.