A couple of the kids on my (8 1/2 year old) daughter’s softball team were looking at my glove, noticed the signature that said . . . Rusty Staub. Of course, all the questions started - “Who’s Rusty Staub?”
So who’s signature is on your mitt? C’mon, 'fess up, your glove is older than you can imagine, right?
My dad gave me a Roberto Clemente signature glove when I was about 10. I still have it but it is in no condition to play catch with.
The one I actually use on occasion is a George Brett signed one, from the mid 80s. The one I don’t use anymore, but did for about 10 years (well after I bought the Brett one) is a Brooks Robinson signed one, from the mid 70s.
My favorite is a Dave Righetti, but I also have a newer Ken Griffey, Jr. that I use most of the time.
Mine has Barry Larkin’s in it. Principally because his model glove was the only one at Target that fit my hand when I went to buy a new one to replace my old one, which was a Greg Luzinski model.
I’ve also had a Bob Friend, Ron Perranoski, and a Brooks Robinson.
As for bats I’ve had a Charlie Smith and an Alex Johnson. My first baseball game I attended was Alex Johnson Bat Night at Anaheim Stadium. That was back in the days when they gave you the bat when you went in.
Tom Seaver 
I used to have an Al Kaline glove, but I am not sure what happened to it. Old number 6 of the Tigers will always be my all-time favorites.
I remember Rusty Staub! He played for the Tigers for a while in the seventies, and was a teammate of Mark “the Bird” Fidrych in 1976, another player that the young’uns have prolly never heard of.
Sadly, some of them prolly don’t know who Kaline is either, except maybe in his current role as a Tiger TV announcer.
Chipper Jones! v00t!
Cal Ripken, jr. (I’ve got two!! of them)
Joe Shlabotnik.
Fred Lynn
Dave Johnson
I don’t have a glove,but a Rusty Staub glove??? Maybe a bat but a glove? Did he ever use one?
Tom Seaver as well.
Rico Petrocelli. I got it in the late 60’s. Still in decent shape too.
I had two Rawlings third baseman gloves. One was a Bill Madlock, the other a Mike Schmidt.
Daniel Joseph Le Grande Orange Staub was an all star ballplayer, although at my age I only remember him as a pinch hitter and backup first baseman for the Mets. He did some announcing for the Mets after retiring, and I think he still has his restaurant “Rusty’s” in NYC.
I still have a baseball that “the Bird” signed for me at Tiger Stadium back in the summer of '76 or '77. Ron LeFlore and Steve Kemp wouldn’t sign it though.
As for my current glove, another Cal Ripken Jr. here.
My glove is 15 years old, and has Cal Ripken Jr.'s name on it. I didn’t buy it for his name (I was a Yankees fan!), but because it was the only American-made glove available at the time.
I’m not sure if there ARE any American-made gloves today.
I’ve got a Roger Clemens now. My first was a Richie Zisk. My second was my best friend’s Bud Harrelson.
Mine’s a Mizuno, Joe Morgan signature. GO REDS.
I also have my father’s, which is an ancient Ted Williams model.
I use both on occasion.