baseball glove

American  

noun

1. a padded, leather covering for the hand, having a pocket in the area over the palm, webbing between the sections for the thumb and forefinger, and either separate sections for each finger or sections for more than one finger: used by baseball players in the field for catching batted or thrown balls.

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Example Sentences

His parents, he recalled, struggled to buy him a baseball glove.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The pair spent two summers practicing to get the feat down right, including using a baseball glove to help Mr. Heinig learn to catch the ball barehanded eventually.

From Washington Times • Oct. 21, 2023

One day, I reached into a closet to grab my baseball glove and discovered a crumpled-up bag of potato chips.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2023

On Saturday, Carroll’s mother — Pey-Lin Carroll — even tweeted a photo of baby Corbin crawling inside the bronze baseball glove statue beyond the left field gate at T-Mobile Park.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023

He lay down on his bed, held his baseball glove up to his face, and breathed in its leathery scent.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt