Louisville Slugger Bionic Inner Glove
Designed to fit seamlessly underneath a catcher's mitt, the Louisville Slugger Bionic inner glove helps reduce sting with each throw, making it a must-have catcher accessory. The glove is equipped with the company's Bionic padding, an anatomical pad system that evens out the surface of your hand. By minimizing the peaks and valleys that your fingers and palms otherwise display, these orthopedic "relief zones" diminish the pain from catching high heaters and foul tips. At the same time, the glove preserves your hand's flexibility, so you can easily trap a ball and switch it to your throwing hand. The Bionic glove boasts several premium construction details, including a top-grade Cabretta leather palm, a diamond Lycra and spacer mesh back, and a contoured neoprene wrist band with an ulnar relief zone. Available in left- or right-handed versions with or without cuffs, the glove comes in adult sizes S-XXL and youth sizes S-L.About Louisville SluggerIn many ways, the rich 120-year history of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat began in the talented hands of 17-year-old John A. "Bud" Hillerich. Bud's father, J.F. Hillerich, owned a woodworking shop in Louisville in the 1880s when Bud began working for him. Legend has it that Bud slipped away from work one afternoon in 1884 to watch the Louisville Eclipse, the town's major league team. After Pete Browning--the Eclipse's star who was mired in a hitting slump--broke his bat, Bud invited him to his father's shop to make a new one. With Browning at his side giving advice, Bud handcrafted a new bat from a long slab of wood. Browning got three hits using the bat the next day. Browning told his teammates, which began a surge of professional ballplayers visiting the Hillerich shop.Although J.F. Hillerich had little interest in making bats, Bud persisted, eventually registering the name Louisville Slugger with the U.S. patent office in 1894. In the early 1900s, the company was one of the first to use a sports endorsement as a marketing strategy, paying Hall of Famer Honus Wagner to use his name on a bat. By 1923, Louisville Slugger was the selling more bats than any other bat maker in the country, with such famed clients as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Lou Gehrig. In the ensuing years, the company has sold more than 100 million bats, and 60 percent of all Major League players currently use Louisville Sluggers. The company now sells far more than bats, including fielding and batting gloves, helmets, catchers' gear, equipment bags, training aids, and accessories.