The History and Evolution of the Baseball Glove

Back in January the Hall of Fame asked me to write a brief history of baseball gloves and how they evolved over the years for the Opening Day issue of their magazine, Memories & Dreams. You know me, always happy to chat about my favorite subject. The problem is shutting me up, and I only had 1,500 words to do it. I wrote a first draft in a couple of hours and of course was well over 2,000 words. I then begged for some leeway, and we were able to pare it down considerably to this.

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