stackyFACTSCatching a massive leather ball flying at ninety miles per hour with your unprotected palm requires a serious lack of common sense.
Catching a massive leather ball flying at ninety miles per hour with your unprotected palm requires a serious lack of common sense. Before the 1880s, baseball players fiercely believed wearing heavily padded gloves was an active sign of weakness. Pitchers threw heat, and infielders just aggressively absorbed the impact, leading to horrific finger dislocations and broken bones being accepted as entirely normal occupational hazards.
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