Pitching glove having webbed fingers
OwnerHarold DeLonginventor
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Abstract
A pitching glove is provided primarily for baseball and softball, in which the ball is thrown as in few other games. The glove has a body and only two fingers, the index and the middle finger, with a web spanning between them. The web serves both to train the fingers to remain in the proper pitching position, and may be used in play in unofficial games in which it serves to smoothly roll the ball out so that it is not deflected off-course by the index finger, and the flattened, flexible outermost portion of the web will track the ball and impart a substantial spin just as it leaves the hand.
Claims1
A method of pitching a ball with a pitching hand in a controlled fashion comprising the following steps:
- (a) engaging a glove having sleeves covering only the index and middle fingers on said pitching hand with a web restraint spanning between said sleeves for limiting the angle of divergence of said sleeves;
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- (b) while said fingers are restrained, pitching a ball by letting it roll off the middle and index fingers in the pitching direction while said fingers are maintained spread apart to substantially said maximum angle permitted by said web restraint, such that the ball being pitched rolls off of the web just prior to leaving the hand to extend a duration of frictional control over the ball during the pitch.
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