Glove: Legal or Illegal?

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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Yesterday after MTD, Jr.'s and my last game in an ASA girls' fastpitch tournament I noticed that one of the player's gloves, rather than using leather laces to keep the glove's fingers to together, she used three zip ties instead. The female ends of the zip ties were on the outside of the glove's fingers and the male end of the zip tie was cut off about 1/8 of an inch past the female part of the zip tie.

My question is: Is this glove legal?

I don't know the girls rules. Baseball rules it's good to go. If it's not illegal, it's legal.

And is it safe?

It's safer than metal (or even plastic) spikes. There is danger in every pitch in a baseball game. Nothing is safe.

The outside of the glove's fingers is the side of the glove that tags the runner about 99.999,999% of the time and if it came in contact with a runner's arm or face in a sweeping motion the sharp edges of the plastic could scratch or cut the runner.

Might need a Band-Aid to comply with certain rules pertaining to a bleeding player.