The Tornado Palm glove is also an elusive mitt for collectors. April 1, 2013— -- My affection for a very old baseball glove I've owned since I was a kid was tinged with greed this spring and ...

Shaking the hands of a catcher before the invention of baseball mitts was like grabbing a handful of walnuts, Dan Gutman wrote in his fabulous history of baseball inventions, Banana Bats and Ding ...

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 ...

Baseball is in Dave ... on to his Little League gloves but didn’t start collecting them in earnest until 1987. “I don’t collect autographs, cards, balls or bats,” he said.

A 1970-72 Willie Mays game-used MacGregor KC1P Professional Model Baseball Glove will be up for sale ... from fellow baseball great Leo Durocher. Vintage rookie debuts are "incredibly rare ...

It’s interesting that the bat—the centerpiece of the game!—hasn’t changed nearly as much as the ball or the glove. In the end, it’s a bit sad that baseball’s DIY culture dwindled.

Nokona workers said they feel pride seeing their gloves worn by MLB players. For four generations, a company in tiny Nocona, Texas, has been stitching baseball gloves by hand for America's ...