The glove caught on, much to the chagrin of some early baseball purists, and in 1895 the National League and American Association of Baseball Clubs created the first restrictions on glove size: ...

If the legend is correct, the baseball glove was first used extensively by a career .165 hitter, Charlie Waitt, ... Webs or pockets were added to gloves in the early 1900s. St.

The first baseball glove you owned can excite memories as sweet as your first kiss. Or more. “A glove is like a wife,” Darrel Evans, the Red Sox outfielder eight-time Gold Glove winner once ...

That's part of the allure that's made baseball gloves special. ... As was often the case in these early catalogs, there’s a testimony from the player. The letter’s dated May 19, 1914.

“Ron Harper stuffed three balls into the glove, tied it shut and dropped it in a bucket of water for a day. . . then pulled the glove out of the water and smashed it with a sledgehammer.” ...

Just a few pros use the glove—it is sold, through a personal Web site, for at least $300—but many early adopters consider it the best glove in baseball, and its inventor is exploring mass ...

Baseball was played in Boise as early as 1868, but it was a very different game compared to the one played today. Perhaps its most conspicuous feature was that the pitcher tossed the ball ...