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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..
At first glance there seems to be only one way to wear a baseball glove. But there are actually a couple variations, depending mainly on the your comfort level and personal taste. The first baseball players didnât have to worry about how to put their fingers in their gloves, because they didnât wear gloves. Indeed, protective equipment of any kind was considered unmanly. A.G. Spalding, who began pitching in the 1860s, wrote that he first saw a player wearing a glove in 1875.