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Funny/ironic/strange that the maximum lengths for many parts of the glove are listed on the diagram, but no minimums. Perhaps that will change if this particular glove is not allowed.
Maximums have been around for many, many years. Somewhere I read that the maximums were set up, in part, by Mr. Spalding and his brother in law, Mr. Reach, because they didn't want to have to buy more of the dyes used to cut the leather used for the majority of the glove. A couple standard sizes with different grades of leather...and since they pretty much enjoyed a monopoly back in the olden days, that's what size the gloves were.
(Yes, dammit, I meant dies instead of dyes. Egg on face...)
[Edited by bkbjones on Jul 27th, 2005 at 02:36 PM]
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