Baseball gloves

"Proper-handed" baseball glove worn on the left hand of middle fielder Willie Mays through the 1954 World Sequence.

A baseball glove or mitt is a big leather glove worn by baseball gamers of the defending workforce, which assists gamers in catching and fielding balls hit by a batter or thrown by a teammate.

By conference, the glove is described by the handedness of the meant wearer, quite than the hand on which the glove is worn: a glove that matches on the left hand?utilized by a right-handed thrower?is known as a right-handed (RH) or "right-hand throw" (RHT) glove. Conversely, a left-handed glove (LH or LHT) is worn on the best hand, permitting the participant to throw the ball with the left hand.