The baseball gloves you or your dad played with in the ‘50s might bring you $1,000 today. When ball players first started using gloves in the 1870s, they used fingerless gloves worn on both hands. In ...

“In the last ten years it has been estimated by an able statistician that the annual number of accidents has been 37,518, of which 3 percent have been fatal; 25,611 fingers and 11,016 legs were broken ...

Not too gadgety, but it might give some sports gear folks some ideas. I don’t know much about baseball—my family raised me to be a fan of the Choc Zul Panthers, the highest rated team in the ancient ...

Despite improvements in the catchers' mitts used by professional baseball players, the gloves still do not adequately protect players' hands from injury, according to a study by Wake Forest University ...

Automakers use air-bag systems in their vehicles to protect occupants in a frontal collision. A few even have air-bag systems to protect occupants in side impacts. But what is the motorist and ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Despite improvements in the catchers' mitts used by professional baseball players, the gloves still do not adequately protect players' hands from injury, according to a study by ...