The favorite son of Gretna, Louisiana, was a 5’9” powerhouse who improbably led the National League in home runs six times during his Hall of Fame career. Mel Ott joined the New York Giants in 1926, at the age of 17, and went on to hit 511 home runs during the next 22 MLB seasons, all of which he spent as a Giant. Starting in 1934, Ott was named to 11 consecutive All-Star teams after leading the Giants to the 1933 World Series title.

     “Marvelous Melvin” was a multidimensional slugger, hitting for a .304 career batting average and accumulating 2,876 while maintaining a walk-to-strikeout rate of nearly 2:1. Ott managed the Giants from 1942 to 1948, serving for the first six years as the player-manager before his retirement from the game in 1947. Ott was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951, only four years after his retirement, on his third ballot with 87.2% of the vote.

     This MacGregor glove is a G122 Melvin Ott Model. Ott’s facsimile signature is emblazoned on the inside of the pinky finger slot in silver text. The glove, which is brown with a wide wrist opening, is period appropriate and nearly unrecognizable from the large gloves of today’s baseball. Ott has signed the inside of the thumb slot of this righty glove in black steel-tip fountain pen, in a signature that has aged very well. This item comes with a LOA from JSA (Y81631).

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