Article: A Baseball Glove Made To Help With Throwing - New York Times

A NEW design for baseball gloves capitalizes on a simple idea: players are more accurate if they throw to a target. In this case, the target is the glove itself. The Neumann Tackified Glove Company of Hoboken, N.J., recently introduced black leather gloves with white leather palms called the Neumann Target Series. This glove helps to improve throwing accuracy," said Lewis W.Mulvaney, Neumann's president. "It helps the other person to throw directly to the target." Rather than using a standard tanning process that turns the palm leather dark gray, Neumann leaves the palm leather its natural color, which is white. Mr. Mulvaney said the idea came to him one day as he was testing one of the ...

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