Batting glove having a ridge for use with the upper hand

An improvement in a glove for use with an upper hand of a wearer in swinging a bat having a handle portion, the upper hand being attached by a wrist to an arm having an axis, the glove including a palm, a back, an index finger and third finger having a first point determined by the intersection of their bases, a ring finger and small finger having a second point determined by the intersection of their bases,

• the improvement comprising a raised elongated ridge attached to the palm of the glove, said ridge having a longitudinal axis that is disposed at an angle near a perpendicular to an axis of an arm of a wearer of the glove and displaced from the fingers toward a wrist of the user, the longitudinal axis of the raised ridge substantially parallel to a line connecting the first and second points determined by the intersections of the bases of the fingers, said ridge having a substantially straight finger side disposed generally parallel to said longitudinal axis and facing said fingers of said glove, said ridge being sized and shaped to abut the handle of a bat gripped by the wearer's fingers against and parallel to the finger side of said ridge to fix the position and orientation of the bat in an effective swinging position away from the vee of the thumb.