Category 9: Recreational Objects➔Sports Equipment➔Gear, Baseball➔Glove, Baseball
Artifact
Accession Number:
2018-12-12-12
Date
circa 1940Description
A baseball glove made out of leather. The glove has 4 fingers and a thumb. There is a shoelace wrapped around the first three fingers. The thumb is attached to the main part of the glove with a leather strip called webbing. There is leather woven through metal eyelets on the bottom of the glove (wrist area) The back of the glove has a slit (edged with leather) and a leather strip with two button holes. There is a metal button sewn on the back of the glove. The leather strip is also edged in leather. On the leather strip are the initials G. L. Kent. Materials
Leather
Metal ButtonMeasurements
7.5 Inches L x 7.5 inches W Category
Glove, Baseball