Patent ID: 7353544

Claim:
A ball glove comprising: a palm side, a dorsal side, a thumb stall, and a plurality of finger stalls for receipt of an index finger, a long finger, a ring finger and a small finger and an opening for receiving a person's hand; a palm pad on the palm side disposed for location between a wrist, the center axis of rotation of the thumb carpometacarpal joint and the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the ring finger and the small finger; said palm pad being over the hamate and the carpometacarpal joints of said small finger and said ring finger; said palm side being absent of padding over the center axis of rotation of the thumb carpometacarpal joint, and the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the ring finger and the small finger and including a first lacing extending from one edge of the glove across the palm side of the glove including the center axis of rotation of the thumb carpometacarpal joint to a glove web defined by the thumb stall and an adjacent finger stall.