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In 1905, Mogridge created the first crude protective head gear and was granted patent No. 780899 for a head protector.. This first attempt at a batting helmet was said to look like an inflatable boxing glove that wrapped around the hitters head..
Some say the first to have worn the glove was Albert Spalding who, in 1877, walked onto the field wearing his fingerless, padded, black leather baseball glove. Others say that the first baseball player to have worn a glove was Doug Allison, catcher for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, in 1870 because of an injured hand.