Posts Tagged ‘batting glove’

Remembering an innovator

Monday, November 21st, 2011

batting glove

We tweeted about this last week – marking the passing of Irving Franklin, co-founder of Franklin Sports and co-inventor of the batting glove.

Franklin teamed up with Mike Schmidt in the 1980s to design and make the batting glove that remains today the flagship product of the Franklin Sports brand – and a favorite of batters stepping up to the plate.