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Funny how ASA defines which positions may use either a glove or a mitt, but gives no definition of what constitutes the difference between them.
It must be kind of like pornography.
We might not be able to define them, but we know them when we see them!
I've wondered about these Akadema gloves since I first saw them several years a go. These gloves do have fingers- very short stubby fingers seen on the outside, and full length conventional individual finger stalls on the inside.
Personally, I'd call it a glove. There's no rule book spec on how long the space between the fingers has to be.
But if my state UIC says otherwise, then that's the interpretation I'm going to follow.
By the way, a couple of pieces of odd glove trivia...
The "short finger" glove, looking very much like the Akadema finger arrangement, was first introduced by glove makers in the 1920's. The desigh didn't catch on, and these gloves today are quite rare and collectible.
Several years a go, Wilson marketed a firstbase mitt called "The Outsider". From the front, it looked like a typical first base mitt. The back had individual finger stalls on the outside of the glove.
So much for the "seperate finger slot" definition of what constitutes a glove!
[Edited by BretMan on Jul 21st, 2005 at 03:47 PM]
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