Abstract: The method of fabricating a baseball glove from a single sheet of paperboard, and the resulting baseball glove.

Abstract: A baseball glove or mitt having an outer shell comprising front and a back plies joined together to form thumb and finger stalls and a hand-receiving pocket. A hand-receiving opening at the bottom of the glove provides entry into the shell. The back ply of the shell in the area between the stalls and the hand-receiving opening is formed for substantially covering the back of the hand of a person wearing the glove, a portion of the back ply in said area having a zone with a flexibility greater than the remainder of said portion for enabling the glove readily to flex when the hand is flexed to close the glove.

Abstract: In a baseball catching means having a little-finger piece, a thumb piece and three finger pieces of which at least two finger pieces are formed as separated from each other, a connection member for connecting the little-finger piece to the thumb piece through a backstop is extended from the upper end of the little-finger piece and disposed along the upper ends of the three finger pieces.

Abstract: Meshwork patterns are impressed upon the whole or a portion of a back leather member of a baseball glove to stiffen the leather and mesh-like apertures are formed in the stiffened leather to provide it with air-permeability.

Abstract: A rear seam of each finger sheath of a baseball glove is formed by securing a reinforcing strip onto two of three sheath members along their adjacent edges to provide an elasticity of the finger sheath and facilitate its bending toward the palm of the glove.

Abstract: A baseball glove according to this invention comprises an anti-glare web attached between sheaths thereof for the thumb and the index finger. A player can watch a fly by peering through the web without being hindered by the glare of sunlight or stadium lights of illumination.

Abstract: A former and carrier for maintaining the shape of a baseball glove placed within it, which comprises an integral, molded plastic clam shell-like body which is closed upon the glove, maintaining pressure upon it during carrying and storage.

Abstract: A baseball fielder's glove containing a weight attached thereto. The weighted fielder's glove increases the strength, quickness and agility of a ball player's fielding hand by strengthening the wrist and hand through continual use. The weight is preferably rubber coated and secured to the wrist strap of the fielder's glove.

Abstract: The invention provides a mitt for baseball use. Vegetable oil, such as castor oil or the like, is permeated under a heating operation into the ball-catching portion of the leather on the ball-catching side. A polyurethane resin layer is provided on the reverse face of the vegetable oil permeated portion of said leather, said polyurethane resin layer being formed through the application of the polyurethane resin immediately after a second heating operation of the leather and after said heating operation has been completed.

Abstract: A reversible baseball or other glove useable by both right-handed and left-handed players includes a juxtaposed front and rear piece of flexible sheet material, each said piece provided with a middle finger stall, two intermediate finger stalls and two outer finger stalls, a palm portion, and a heel portion, said front piece having a first cutout therein, said first cutout extending upwardly in a curved configuration into and across said palm portion of said front piece from said heel portion of said front piece, said rear piece having a second cutout therein, said second cutout extending upwardly in a curved configuration into and across said palm portion of said rear piece from said heel portion of said rear piece; a web disposed between one of said outer finger stalls and the adjoining finger stall; lacing or welting means for peripherally interconnecting said front piece and said rear piece, wherein said lacing means joins said web to said front piece and said rear piece; a first geometrically shaped plan

Abstract: A baseball glove, usable by both right-handed and left-handed players, is formed from a symmetrical blank cut in one piece from a strip of leather or similar sheet material, or from a pair of such blanks, defining one or more single centrally positioned finger stalls flanked by a pair of wings either of which can be shaped into a combination thumb stall and web while the other accomodates the remaining finger or fingers. In one embodiment the web is connected by lacing with the central group, designed to receive the index finger; in another embodiment, six or seven stalls are shiftably interlinked by a single lace, with one or two stalls forming the web on being closely juxtaposed with an adjoining thumb stall. When the glove has front and rear sheets formed from separate blanks, their heel portions may be loosely held together by a wristband.

Abstract: A baseball mitt comprising front and back plies forming a mitt body having thumb portion, a finger portion and a portion connecting the thumb and finger portions, and a glove secured to the back of the body with the front of the glove facing the back ply. The glove has a thumb stall disposed generally behind the thumb portion of the body, at least one finger stall disposed generally behind the finger portion of the body, a crotch portion between the thumb and finger stalls, a palm portion, and a hand-receiving opening adjacent the bottom of the mitt. The glove is joined to the mitt body at the periphery of the hand-receiving opening and at the ends of the thumb and finger stalls, but is free of attachment to the body at its palm portion, thereby providing freedom of movement of the palm portion of the glove relative to the mitt body for increasing the flexibility of the mitt.

Abstract: An improved glove, mitt or the like for use in baseball or softball which has a plurality of dimples formed in its palm side. The dimples serve the purpose of dampening the rotation of the ball and increasing the flexibility of the glove, and thereby reduces the possibility of errors in catching occurring.

Abstract: A light weight, ventilated, moisture resistant cushion on which there are opposite facings having multiple openings, such as in a net fabric, for the passage of air. The facings define a pocket between them, and each pocket is adapted to carry and restrain a pad which may be constructed from a jersey knit plastic fabric, rolled onto itself to form at least one roll of the pad fabric. The opposite facings contact opposite surface portions of the roll or rolls so that any load imposed to a facing of the cushion tends to flatten the roll a direction transverse to the center line or axis thereof. The strands of the knitted fabric forming the rolls are relatively stiff and when loaded bend and when unloaded, although not per se resilient, recover like springs.

Abstract: An integrally molded plastic baseball glove utilizable in the game of baseball as a catching device for protecting the hand. The final molded article has the aesthetic appearance of a leather baseball glove. The method of making includes first molding a hollow plastic shell which forms exterior convex front and back surfaces of the baseball glove, the shell front and back surface having exterior, shaped-segments including patterned depressions and protuberances which form outlines delineating the fingers and thumb areas of the glove, a pair of webs between the thumb and index finger areas, an additional surface including cut out lines and lacing to make it look like a leather glove. The shell may be molded utilizing slush, rotation or blow-injection techniques. The mold face itself that forms the front glove shell exterior surface is not an exact replica of the final glove form but is distorted in surface configuration such that the front exterior surface when molded is convex overall.

Abstract: A baseball glove, usable by both right-handed and left-handed players, has two outer finger stalls, two intermediate finger stalls and a middle finger stall, at least the latter three stalls being integral with front and rear pieces of leather or similar sheet material held together by lacing which also links one of the outer stalls and the adjoining intermediate stall to an interposed web. The two outer stalls may be structurally identical, so as to receive either the thumb or the little finger of a player according to the latter's handedness, and may have downward extensions protectively overlying the player's palm. Alternatively, all five finger stalls may be integral with the two coextensive sheets to be selectively used as either the front or the back of the glove; the lacing in that case may be unitary but loose enough in places to allow flexing in one direction or the other, depending on which hand is inserted between one of these sheets and an intervening padding.

Abstract: A baseball glove having a thumb and finger stalls, a crotch portion between the base of the thumb stall and the base of the next adjacent finger stall, and a web extending between and being secured to the thumb and next adjaent finger stall and to the crotch portion. The web has a series of spaced lacing loops or tunnels at its margin, and the inner margins of the thumb and next adjacent finger stalls and the margin of the crotch portion also have a series of spaced lacing loops or tunnels alternating with and being generally in line with the web tunnels so that a lace may be passed through the tunnels for securing the web to the glove.

Abstract: An athletic glove for baseball players, and which includes a pad overlying the second phalange of each of the third and fourth fingers, to thereby increase the force which these fingers are able to apply to the bat. In use, the third and fourth fingers on the glove hand, and the first and second fingers on the other hand, form hinged control points at the extremities of the two hands, thereby improving the leverage which is imparted to the bat, and facilitating the directional control and increasing the velocity of the bat.

Abstract: The invention concerns a partially inflexible device which may be worn as a glove by one attempting to increase his glove/hand reaction time proficiency in the baseball skills of catching, fielding and catch/throw agility. It also may be used by an instructor or coach in demonstrating or teaching those skills to players of any skill level. The glove has the palm portion thereof made inflexible whereby a user cannot flex the palm to catch a ball by squeezing it with his glove hand. Instead, the user is forced to use his free hand to trap a ball between the inflexible palm of the glove and the free hand. The inflexible palm portion of the glove can be integrally formed with the glove; it can be an insert, permanently secured into a pocket of the glove; or it can be an insert which can be easily inserted into and removed from a pocket of the glove.

Abstract: Ball player's gloves used in playing baseball, softball and similar sports are provided with an opening for insertion of the player's hand to manipulate the glove. A relatively short strap normally spans the opening to assist in holding the glove on the player's hand. The present invention provides an improvement in such gloves in which a relatively long strap is provided in place of the short strap. The long strap has one end attached to one side of the opening of the glove and a second opposite end detachably attachable to the other side of the opening. The longer strap has sufficient length so that it can be looped around the wrist of the player to secure the glove to the player so that the glove can be more readily manipulated and will not come off while it is being used.

Abstract: A pair of protective plates are releasably secured to the back side of a glove. One plate covers the back of the hand and the other plate covers the lower portions of the fingers. The two plates are spaced apart to allow freedom of movement of the knuckles at the base of the fingers, but the plates are spaced sufficiently close to each other to protect these knuckles. When used with a batter's glove the plates conform to the curved configuration of the hands while gripping a bat, and the plates are configured so as to prevent interference between them when the bat is swung. For other uses, such as motorcross, the plates have a slightly different configuration.

Abstract: Baseball apparatus including a bat, ball and glove; wherein they are magnetically arranged such that the ball is attracted to the glove and bat in such a manner that the players may hold the bat extended with the ball affixed to it, disconnect it quickly with a slight jerk, strike the ball, and cause it to go directly to the baseball glove. A player can catch with the bat also as well as pick the ball up with the bat again jerk it slightly freeing the ball from the bat and strike it toward a player having another bat or glove which attracts the ball to the pocket of the glove, or the end of the corresponding bat.

Abstract: A game of catch for small children using a ball coated with burr material and a mitt or glove with outer faces of material to which the burr material adheres upon contact, a beginner can succeed in catching the ball almost from the start and acquires coordination later useful in baseball.

Abstract: A baseball catcher's mitt is provided with a tongue-like wrist protector pad flap. The mitt has a back piece and a mitt piece and is provided with a hand-receiving opening adjacent to which is a heel pad. The wrist protector flap is in the form of a generally flat pad which extends away from the heel pad at the palm side of the hand-receiving opening. Stitching and/or lacing means joins the mitt pieces and the wrist protector flap in unitary assembly. A flexible joint for the wrist protector flap is provided at it's juncture with the mitt pieces.

Abstract: A throw and catch toy for particular use by young children, mental retardees or handicapped perons to enable the catching of an object thrown without requiring substantial muscular coordination or finger movement of the catching hand. The toy comprises the combination of an inflatable glove having a palm surface upon which plural patches of one component of VELCRO are disposed and a ball having a surface upon which plural patches of the other component of VELCRO are disposed. When the ball is thrown at the glove and makes contact with the palm side thereof the VELCRO components on the ball and glove coact to hold the ball on the glove without requiring the person wearing the glove to use his fingers to grasp the ball to hold it.