| Baseball Gloves are great gifts. Gloves are a type | | | | as time went by and soon they had a huge glove |
| of garment to help protect and cover the hand | | | | on one hand to help them catch the ball in the |
| against cold or heat, physical damage which can | | | | webbing of the glove and the other hand to help |
| be caused by friction, abrasions, chemicals and | | | | keep the ball intact. A baseball player who is right |
| diseases and their basic usage is to help protect | | | | handed will wear a glove on his left hand while a |
| the wearer from things which their bare hands | | | | left handed baseball player will do vice versa. |
| should not touch. | | | | It is the pattern of the glove which decides the |
| Gloves are made form different materials and are | | | | shape and size of the baseball glove. And there |
| used for a number of purposes Gloves are also | | | | are different types of baseball gloves like |
| used while people play different types of sports | | | | Catcher's Mitts, First baseman's Mitts, Infielder's |
| like cricket, football, baseball etc | | | | mitts, Pitcher's gloves, Outfielder's gloves. |
| A baseball gloves or mitt as it is usually called is a | | | | All these baseball gloves are quite specialized and |
| large glove made of leather which baseball players | | | | they position specific patterned gloves. These |
| wear to help them catch and field balls which are | | | | base ball gloves are made specifically to help |
| being hit by the batter of the other team Doug | | | | protect the baseball payers who are fielding in |
| Allison was the first man to use a baseball glove | | | | different positions during the game. |
| during a game when he was a catcher fro the | | | | The batter tends to hit the ball with extreme |
| Cincinnati Red Stockings as early as in 1870. | | | | force and this can be very dangerous and harmful |
| He happened to wear a glove because of an | | | | to the hand of the catcher if he is not wearing a |
| injury to his left hand. But the first documented | | | | well padded glove on his hand when he is trying |
| proof of any baseball player wearing gloves is | | | | to catch the ball. |
| Charles Waitt who was a St. Louis outfielder/ first | | | | If you are planning to buy baseball gloves for |
| batsman who happened to wear gloves on his | | | | your friends or family it is best to go to the |
| hands in 1875. It was considered feminine to wear | | | | internet and look at all the details about the |
| gloves but it soon caught up with the baseball | | | | baseball gloves being offered by different |
| players and modified versions began to appear. | | | | companies |
| In the beginning baseball players used to cut off | | | | Some of the major companies which |
| the fingertips from a leather glove and wear | | | | manufacture baseball gloves are Louisville Slugger, |
| them so that they had padding for their bare | | | | Nokona, Rawlings, Spalding, Wilson etc. |
| hand. The base ball gloves began to get modified | | | | |