Who Made The First Baseball Glove Analysis
Who Made The Baseball Glove?
By: Max Moffitt In 1875, Charles C. Waite took the field with a glove. At the time there were no rules against gloves. Waite wore a tan colored glove hoping nobody in the crowd would notice but his plan didn’t work and lots of people noticed. Even though it was thin it helped and he then decided to add pads to his glove for more comfort. Waite admitted he was ashamed but he only had it on to save his hand. The year after Waite’s debut A.G. Spalding and his brothers decided to make a sports company and named it Spalding. Alongside the official baseball Spalding made the first baseball glove. Spaldings glove was fully padded and fingerless which many players would start to buy. In 1920 Bill Doak who was a pitcher
replaced the leather webbing on the glove with straps which made a deeper webbing. He then wanted to show the world his creation by selling it to Rawlings a small company at the time. At a time Rawlings started taking over spalding they started to make specialized gloves. That meant that people could go to Rawlings to buy a custom glove they would make to fit you perfect. This got so popular that people still do it today. So what are you waiting for, go out and play some catch.
By: Max Moffitt In 1875, Charles C. Waite took the field with a glove. At the time there were no rules against gloves. Waite wore a tan colored glove hoping nobody in the crowd would notice but his plan didn’t work and lots of people noticed. Even though it was thin it helped and he then decided to add pads to his glove for more comfort. Waite admitted he was ashamed but he only had it on to save his hand. The year after Waite’s debut A.G. Spalding and his brothers decided to make a sports company and named it Spalding. Alongside the official baseball Spalding made the first baseball glove. Spaldings glove was fully padded and fingerless which many players would start to buy. In 1920 Bill Doak who was a pitcher
replaced the leather webbing on the glove with straps which made a deeper webbing. He then wanted to show the world his creation by selling it to Rawlings a small company at the time. At a time Rawlings started taking over spalding they started to make specialized gloves. That meant that people could go to Rawlings to buy a custom glove they would make to fit you perfect. This got so popular that people still do it today. So what are you waiting for, go out and play some catch.