Reebok Field Magistrate Plate shoes on eBay

[Kevin Finnerty]

Ebay has a transaction success rate that must be considered just short of miraculous. Things should go wrong way more often than they actually do. I've been buying crap on there for several years now--all kinds of crap--and I got the wrong thing one time. (Some guy sent me the wrong box of baseball cards.) When my son started playing wood bat scout ball, I went up and started finding wood bats. I wound up hooking up with some current pros and two ex-major leaguers and acquired four dozen pro stock wood bats of several brands and colors, and for some of them, I paid one fourth what they were worth.

Some choice umpire gear ebay finds:

Douglas West Vest CP ... $51
Douglas WV shins ... $36
New Wilson Gold shins ... $72
New Diamond Wheeled Equipment bag ... $109
New Reebok wheeled equipment bag ... $49
New PlusPOS Official's tote ... $22
New PlusPOS MiLB jacket ... $28
Near New Honig's Polywool base slacks ... $39
2008 Jaksa Roder Manual ... $16
2008 MLB Umpire Manual ... $11
2008 Carl Childress BRD ... $12
Official American League Cap ... $13
1944 OBR ... $6
1957 OBR ... $5
1969 OBR ... $3

The Douglas gear was listed in the memorabilia category, so virtually no bids were made and I swooped in and got 'em. Before I did, I even asked San Diego Steve if he wanted me to grab it up for him, but he already bought his All-Star by that time. The manuals were listed in the books category, and the guy with the J/R also had the BRD and the MLB manual, so I grabbed them all.

It's like treasure hunting, so it takes patience and diligence, but it gets to be worth it after awhile.