baseball glove

American

noun

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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He said a high point of his early life was buying a baseball glove with his father at the local hardware store.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

A baseball glove used by Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax in 1956, his second season in the majors, is going to auction next month.

From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 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 by the left-field gate at T-Mobile Park.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

When I was in the sixth grade, my parents gave me a baseball glove and a typewriter for my birthday.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

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