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Originally Posted by Leon
Isn't that similar to a workman's glove? I think that is what I have seen similar ones called(?), or are they smaller than this one?
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Unless I'm being fooled by the angle of the image, I think the back of the glove extends further than late 1800's gloves. My guess is that the glove he's wearing was more of a coachman's glove, and there was never any intent that it be used for baseball. I thought the baseball gloves that were called 'workman's gloves' were real baseball gloves that were called that because they resembled a workman's glove (primitive with no webbing), but they were shorter, not long like a coachman's glove.
I'm no expert at old gloves of any type, baseball or otherwise, so the above is all conjecture or based on what I remember from reading other people's research.