These are pictures of baseball gloves and equipment from the 1926 Holman's Catalog. Baseball gloves have changed a lot since back then; now, we have different colours and different shapes. Back then, a normal glove would be hard to use because you would have to make fist when the ball was coming; a fielder's glove looked like a glove you'd wear in the winter. A catcher's glove would probably hurt more back then because it didn't have as much padding as gloves do today. Gloves were made of horsehide.

You might buy a glove in the general store or order one from a catalogue. Some gloves cost as much as $7.50, and some went for $6.00. Cheaper ones sold for $3.50. An official World Series ball would have cost about $2.00, but you could get a boy's baseball for as little as $0.50. Good bats cost between $3.00 and $4.00.

Holman's Spring and Summer Catalog, No. 38, 1926, pg. 109
PARO, Acc 4226/2 pg. 109

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