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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
We had blue ones like that in practice, but they broke down and got us real helmets for games.
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Same story here. Do you remember a lousy wooden bat that had a flesh colored dimpled rubber sleeve that almost came up to the trademark? It seemed to have a sweet spot about the size of a quarter and it always stung your hands if you made contact. Baseball shoes were all black and had molded hard rubber cleats. They were pretty good at the beginning of the season, but toward the end the cleats had worn down to knubs that made them look more like bowling shoes. We thought we were hotshots when we moved up to PONY League and they let you wear metal cleats. I remember a lot of umps used a ballon protector.