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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 43113, member: 59"]I think we're looking at 1900 give or take 10 years in either direction. I saw a 1905 Spalding catalog with very similar gloves and references to the use of catcher's mitts being common by 1890.</p><p><br /></p><p>The true "webbed glove" (as we know it) wasn't invented until 1920, although that same catalog in 1905 had some more primitive ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 43113, member: 59"]I think we're looking at 1900 give or take 10 years in either direction. I saw a 1905 Spalding catalog with very similar gloves and references to the use of catcher's mitts being common by 1890. The true "webbed glove" (as we know it) wasn't invented until 1920, although that same catalog in 1905 had some more primitive ones.[/QUOTE]
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