Who was the Canadian who invented the baseball glove?
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Doug Allison is rumored to be the first to use one, playing catcher for the Cincinatti Red Stockings in 1870, due to an injured hand (I believe left). It was simply buckskin mitts, but it was a glove. He was also born in Philadelphia though.This isn't the same glove used today obviously, but theoretically he could be considered the inventor.
If you want to be a stickler about the glove not really being a baseball glove because it was so different, consider that Bill Doak, a pitcher for the Cardinals in the 1910s and 1920s, born in Pittsburgh, was the first to suggest the web between the fingers. Previous gloves thereby aren't really baseball gloves, but rather really just padded gloves.
AG Spalding was the first to manufacture a "baseball glove" as it were, but he was born in Byron, IL.
The truth is that no Candadian "invented" the baseball glove, no more than a single person, such as Abner Doubleday can be credited with inventing baseball. I'm sure you have a particular hosier in mind, but that's the truth of the matter.
Ah, you wanted Art Irwin. Well, unfortunately, gloves had been in use since the 1870s, so his "invention" of 1885 is really only a refinement, just like Bill Doak's refinement to add the web.
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