whats the difference between the baseball mits used in 1919 and those used in the 60s?

Question

you wouldnt be able to use the mits from the year 1919 in the present day game or in the 60's baseball games. what is the difference in the gloves?

Answer 1

In 1920, Bill Doak, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, suggested that a web be placed between the first finger and the thumb in order to create a pocket. This design soon became the standard for baseball gloves.

Answer 2

Many early baseball gloves were simple leather gloves with the fingertips cut off, supposedly to allow for the same control of a bare hand, but with extra padding. The adoption of the baseball glove by baseball star Albert Spalding when he began playing first base influenced more infielders to begin using gloves. By the mid 1890s, it was the norm for players to wear gloves in the field.

In 1920, Bill Doak, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, suggested that a web be placed between the first finger and the thumb in order to create a pocket. This design soon became the standard for baseball gloves.

Since their beginnings, baseball gloves have grown. While catching in baseball had always been two handed, eventually, gloves grew to a size that made it easier to catch the ball in the webbing of the glove, and use the off-hand to keep it from falling out.

Now, gloves have taken on many shapes and sizes:

Catcher's mitts have extra padding and a hinged, claw-like shape that helps them to catch 90+ mile per hour fastballs, and provide a good target for pitchers to throw at. If required to catch a knuckleball, a catcher will typically use an even larger mitt.
Pitcher's gloves usually have a closed webbing to allow them to get a grip on the ball without tipping their pitches
First basemen's mitts are generally very long and wide to help them with scooping badly thrown balls from infielders. These mitts lack individual fingers.
Outfield gloves are usually quite long, to help with both catching fly balls on the run or on a dive and so they do not have to bend down as far to field a ground ball, so they can return it to the infield.
Infield baseball gloves other than the first baseman's tend to be smaller, to allow the fielders to easily remove the ball from their glove to make a quick throw to a base.


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Answer 3

the gloves that were made in the 60s could catch better, and the playert would make less errors than the 1913 gloves

Answer 4

Size it was a glove now some are scoops. aren't most custom made for the particular players .I didn't know there was any rule about using those old mitts.