Abstract: A hockey glove which is heavily padded on its back including the finger and thumb stalls has a flexible body member formed of seam joined palm and back flexible sheet material portions, the palm portion being made of waterproofed top grained boar hide. The thumb stall has its back wall partially formed by a folded over strip whose ends are seam stitched to the edge of the back sheet material portion carrying the padding and to the thumb section of the palm sheet material portion. The thumb stall palm sheet material portion further comprises multiple plies of the boar hide sheet material to reinforce the thumb stall. The tip of the free thumb stall is stitched to the padded back sheet material portion.Other portions of the palm sheet material portion are reinforced with additional layers of waterproof top grain boar hide at the wear points.