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. ...

“A glove from the late 1800s to 1900 ... it looks just like a work glove with external padding and no webbing between the forefinger and thumb. The earlier ones didn’t even have the webbing,” Droke ...

In the rolling countryside along the western edge of the Catskill Mountains, baseball enthusiasts are playing the game like it was played back in the day — way, way back in the day. Welcome to vintage ...