Word: glove
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sacks and the men in the outer garden used to wear almost any old kind of glove, with very little if any padding. The mitts or gloves were not moulded, consequently many a hot liner that today would be easily nabbed by a fielder, was in the old days muffed and the bases safely reached by the batter...
...takes a players to fill a player's wants and Mr. Reach ha certainly solved the mitt and glove problem for the baseball played...
Care in making is a watchword in the Reach factory. Every mitt and glove must be just right, the hollow moulded to hold the ball fast, for every Reach Mitt and Glove is fully guaranteed to give satisfaction. It's safe to say that Reach goods can be found at almost any sporting goods outfitter...
...violent ringing is heard. M. Pontbicket, a glove manufacturer, comes out from his room, half asleep, and opens the door. Dardard, the "jeune homme presse," from Bordeaux, rushes in, dressed in his best clothes. He asks if Mr. Pontbicket had not gone to such and such a place that evening; if he did not sit in No. 13, second row, first gallery; and if his daughters had not been there with him. Pontbicket answers in the affirmative. It then develops that Dardard saw Mile. Pontbicket that evening, fell in love with her, and has come to ask for her hand...