Major League baseball catchers have to field pitches flying at 90 mph or more, often catching several hundred fastballs a day. A team of medical researchers has concluded that despite improvements in ...

Not too gadgety, but it might give some sports gear folks some ideas. I don’t know much about baseball—my family raised me to be a fan of the Choc Zul Panthers, the highest rated team in the ancient ...

When it comes to playing ball, a glove is a glove — right? Yes, but in the same sense that you can technically play softball wearing basketball sneakers but cleats will make an athlete more effective ...

Even after more than a century of improvements to the catcher's mitts used by professional baseball players, the hand behind the plate is still taking a pounding from 90-plus-mph fastballs, a team of ...

Dillon Dingler was surprised when he learned he had won the Gold Glove. "There's a lot of really talented catchers in our league," he said. "So it was a really, really cool surprise." Matt Blewett / ...

In any Major League Baseball game, the recognizable equipment is always visible: the bats, the gloves, and the baseball itself. There are the cleats, of course, and the iconic caps, too. But sometimes ...