When you played, finger in or out of the glove?

[scOtt]

:laughlol: Yeah, I know. But it really was THAT good. Put the glove in the vicinity and the glove caught it. No help needed from the user.

[olehippi]

Index finger out and other fingers in each hole if playing the infield. Finger in and two fingers in the left finger hole if playing the outfield.

[scOtt]

I never played the OF. (Stuck me in RF some when I was younger.)

Because...

I CAN'T catch a flyball. CAN NOT do it. At 2B I once had an IF fly rule drop because I couldn't catch it. Is that a PO?

[El Gordo]

I never played the OF. (Stuck me in RF some when I was younger.)

Because...

I CAN'T catch a flyball. CAN NOT do it. At 2B I once had an IF fly rule drop because I couldn't catch it. Is that a PO?

I'll never forget my first time catching a pop up in little league. The coach told me to wait till it looks like it's going to hit you on the head then reach up and catch it. So I did, but it hit me on the head first. Down hill after that. First glove looked like this:

[DrungoHazewood]

Out. And I'm not nearly as well-seasoned as El Gordo, but the first glove I used was my Dad's old glove which was one of those old, small, over-stuffed gloves from the 30s or 40s which must have been about 10 years obsolete by the time he was using it.

[DrungoHazewood]

I also find it interesting that players of the 1880s thought it un-manly to use a glove and taunted and made fun of the early adopters. Players would use thin, skin-colored gloves to try to keep their hands from getting seriously injured but also avoid as much flack from other players as possible. Even catchers played through the amateur era and into the 1870s with essentially no protective equipment. One thing that was lost when gloves were accepted was the ability to throw with your off hand. Many players were (and probably still are) a little bit ambidextrous, and would sometimes throw with their "wrong" hand when positioning and timing dictated it.

[canonfaz]

Finger out. I'm not a freak.

[theobird]

I was a Catcher, and there was no way to put a finger out on my old Nocona Catchers Mitt. But I love this question, because I could never understand why guys put a finger out of the gloves. It was not an option for me, but I always thought I would want all of my fingers in the glove. On the rare occasion I would play first base, in tournaments when they did not want me to Catch 3 games in one day, I had all fingers inside of my Dad's old Claw first basemans glove.

[JayThomas]

This is like the toilet paper over/under question. Always over, and always out.

Always over the top ... much easier to pick it up out of the hand; it comes down low, much harder to pick up.

(And out, for sure; golf glove on the lower hand.)

[McLovin]

In. Pinky and ring finger together as well.

Me too. Still do. I alternate between a Pedrioa model A2000, or Longoria model A2000 depending on what I'm doing. Glove barely on my hand, palm exposed.

[Babypowder]

Still wear mine out in the outfield of my slow pitch softball games.