baseball glove

American  

noun

baseball gloves plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• baseball gloves
  plural

Example Sentences

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baseball glove

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

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

A baseball glove worn by Babe Ruth while he played with the New York Yankees sold for over $1.5 million at an auction Saturday.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2022

He pulled his pet back to him and gripped his baseball glove more tightly.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker