Search by property
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This page provides a simple browsing interface for finding entities described by a property and a named value. Other available search interfaces include the page property search, and the ask query builder.
List of results
- 1870c.7 + (<p> </p> <p>In the 1880s … <p> </p></br><p>In the 1880s we find a claim that catchers' gloves had been known in the 1860s:</p></br><p>"An exchange says that 'Jim White, the third baseman of the Detroit club, was the first man who ever used gloves while catching behind the bat.' This is a mistake. Delavarge, the catcher of the old Knickerbockers, an amateur club of Albany, used gloves when playing behind the bat in the sixties." <em>The Sporting News</em> July 5, 1885.</p></br><p>But in a 9/21/16 19CBB posting, Bob Tholkes wrote:</p></br><p>"I've read several Knick of Albany game accounts in which Delavarge played without running into any mention of gloves. If he wore them, it would have been to protect an injured hand (he was a blacksmith, if memory serves), and not routinely."</p></br><p>And then David Arcidiacono offered the 1870 Allison item listed above. </p></br><p> </p>David Arcidiacono offered the 1870 Allison item listed above. </p> <p> </p>)