SAN ANTONIO — "I just call them work gloves, batting gloves, gardening gloves—whatever," says senior O'Connor Panthers infielder Collin Rayburg. He has the most unusual batting gloves you'll ever see.

When rising Hyde Park High School senior Bear Mayer returns to class later this month, he won’t have to dig for material for a back-to-school essay. For Bear, growing his baseball batting glove ...

Few items of sporting equipment are as disposable as batting gloves. But don’t mistake their impermanence for a lack of importance. Credit...Franklin Sports Supported by By Zach Buchanan Reporting ...

Omir Santos tried on his new batting gloves, said to slow the impact of a harmful fastball down to the mere annoyance of a junkball, and voiced excitement. “I think it’s going to help,” the New York ...

Irving H. Franklin, a longtime sporting goods manufacturer who developed the first batting glove specifically designed for baseball with Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt in 1983, died Nov. 10 at 93.

Irving H. Franklin, an innovator in the sporting goods industry who teamed with Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt to invent the baseball batting glove, died in his sleep Thursday in Falmouth, Mass. He was 93 ...

STOUGHTON, Mass. -- Irving H. Franklin, who co-founded Franklin Sports in 1946 with his brother Sydney FranklinIrving Franklin was a true visionary in producing the prototype of the batting glove that ...

Almost every major league baseball player wears batting gloves nowadays. And then there’s Jorge Posada. The Yankees veteran never wears gloves. “I just like the way it feels without them,’’ he says.