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First Gloves
Players Casually started wearing gloves, not yet in big leagues, first gloves were flesh colored and thin -
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Evolution of Baseball
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Doug Allison, Early MLB gloves
As a catcher Doug Allison suffered of mangled broken hands and fingers after catching with a bare hand, as the idea of gloves were already around he began to introduce the glove to the league -
Spaulding Introduces first lien of Baseball Gloves
Spaulding becomes the first company to introduce a line of baseball gloves now the usage of gloves spread around the league -
Harry Decker alleged creator of the glove
Decker actually had a patent for the "Decker Safety Catcher's Mitt" in 1890 while Albert Spaulding sold the idea using the Spaulding catalog already -
Glove Restrictions Official in Pro Ball
In 1895 Gloves have spread around the league and the league responded with the first glove restrictions. -
Glove Spread around the League
By 1900 it is said that a vast majority of players wore and used gloves. -
New Hampshire-based Draper & Maynard,
First padded gloves and becomes a major supplier of the MLB in the 1910's -
Rawlings comes to the Top
Rawlings came to the forefront of glove manufacturing in 1919, when St. Louis pitcher Bill Doak went to the company with the idea of putting a web between the thumb and index finger -
Nokona Leather Goods Suplies the Servicemen
As the US enters WWII Nokona Leather Goods produced lines of baseball gloves specifically for the servicemen deployed. -
Modern Day gloves
The A2000 is wildly popular in modern day and is the official glove of the MLB
