Clipping:Deacon White's catcher's glove
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| Date | Sunday, June 26, 1887 |
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| Text | White has been given credit for being the first professional base ball player to use gloves as a protection for the hand, and he has again come to the front by adopting a new style of glove that most catchers will heartily indorse as soon as they see them. He knew that he was to catch the game at Sturgis [Mich.] before leaving Chicago and prepared himself accordingly. Visiting Spalding’s store, he secured a pliable pair of gloves and then had a large piece of buckskin sewed over the inner side of the left-hand glove, covering the entire distance from the wrist to the finger tips. It gives the hand the same appearance as the foot of any web-footed animal, and while it looks rather awkward it affords additional protection to the hand and fingers. When Bennett saw the glove he at once pronounced it a grand thing and immediately announced his intention of having one made like it. It prevents a foul tip from doing anything like the amount of damage that it might if the fingers of the glove were separate, and as a receiver for swift pitched balls is a decided convenience, as the surface presented is largely increased over the ordinary glove. |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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