1800s Fingerless Baseball Glove

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Runscott

Steve, you can find 1800s ads where they were sold in pairs: fingerless for the throwing hand and similar glove with full fingers for the catching hand.

I didn't know they came as pairs.

I'm still lost as to how to tell one apart from an old cycling glove. Most even have similar padding. And they were commonly used from probably the 1920's -50's or later with few changes. Around the 50's the knit back gloves became the style. Probably used earlier too, but many earlier photos are staged publicity shots.

Steve B

[packs]

I distinctly recall an Old Judge pose in which the catcher is wearing two fingerless gloves. Can't remember which player though.

Here it is. Hard to tell if they're fingerless or not though:

[Runscott]

Here's one with the 'fingered' glove on the catching hand - it's reasonable to assume his throwing hand glove is fingerless.

[murphusa]

here is a pair, they also made an oven mitt type glove that went with the fingerless