SAN ANTONIO — Kobe Blackthunder is a carefree 3-year-old who loves Spiderman. He was born with eight fingers but his thumbs weren’t functioning due to radial longitudinal deficiency (RLD), a rare ...

When it comes to playing ball, a glove is a glove — right? Yes, but in the same sense that you can technically play softball wearing basketball sneakers but cleats will make an athlete more effective ...

The gloves come with history. They show up at Chris Petroff’s home in suburban Phoenix, a few deliveries per day, UPS, FedEx and regular mail. He will learn the biography of each one. Petroff can ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Chris Petroff gives a lot of love to every glove that comes in. Every day, the Phoenix dad, who many call the glove doctor, gets a new shipment of baseball gloves from around the ...

There’s a lot that goes into making Nokona baseball gloves stand out in the crowded sporting goods marketplace, but the thing that makes them most unique is the little tag on each one that says “Made ...

In the world of baseball, gloves aren’t just protective gear, but the most personal piece of equipment. Players, from Francisco Lindor to Bryce Harper, prefer to have custom-made gloves. But why are ...

The first baseball glove you owned can excite memories as sweet as your first kiss. Or more. “A glove is like a wife,” Darrel Evans, the Red Sox outfielder eight-time Gold Glove winner once declared. ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The best baseball glove is more than a piece of gear: ...

Engineers at the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., an iconic U.S. manufacturer of sports equipment founded in 1887, were tasked with coming up with an upgraded version of the company’s baseball glove to ...

Once, there was a time in baseball when gloves were just gloves, and talk was just talk, and it was actually possible to employ one without the other. So much for those days. Now, in this neurotic age ...

Q: In the past, the only two oversized baseball gloves were the catcher’s mitt and the first baseman’s glove. It seems now every player has a very large glove. I assume there is no limit on the size?

About 100 miles northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, past pastures of crops and cattle, sits Nocona, Texas, population 3,000, home to the Nokona baseball glove factory, one of the last baseball glove ...