Glove with enhanced retention capabilities

Abstract

A leather baseball glove that complies with the code of rules for baseball has a front face of two suede leather material portions, each having a nap with a smooth direction and a resistant direction, the smooth directions facing each other tending to facilitate movement of a ball into the glove pocket and tending to impede movement of a ball away from the pocket and/or out of the glove to enhance ball retaining characteristics of the glove. A method of making a glove includes attaching plural glove portions, at least one of which has a nap with a smooth and braking directions, and orienting such nap to provide preferred smooth and braking directions to enhance ball retention. Use of nap characteristics to enhance holding the shaft of an implement or other device. A method of retrofitting a device for enhanced retention characteristics.

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