Patent ID: 6851123

Claim:
A ball glove comprising: (a) a dorsal side panel and a palmar side panel secured along each panel's outer periphery to define a glove body, the dorsal side panel being sized to cover a back of a hand and the palmar side panel being sized to cover a palm of the hand, the dorsal side panel in conjunction with the palmar side panel providing a thumb stall and a plurality of finger stalls therebetween with an opening between said dorsal side panel and said palmar side panel to receive a hum hand therein; (b) said dorsal side panel having an expandable dorsal side section 21 generally L-shaped configuration therein said expandable dorsal side section extending beyond the carpometacarpal joint of the thumb in a longitudinal direction to a location approximating the center axis of rotation of the metacarpalphalangeal joint of the finger stall to receive said index finger therein and transverse thereto across the metacarpalphalangeal joints of the location of the finger stalls to receive the index finger of the human hand; and, (c) a webbing disposed between said thumb stall and an index finger stall, said webbing having an outer periphery attached to at least one of said dorsal side panel or said palmar side panel.