If wearing only one glove, most batters wear it on their bottom hand to enhance their grip and prevent blisters. Since I grew up playing baseball in cold weather it would also have helped to have gloves to deal with the sting of hitting the ball. The sting didn't bother me that much since I didn't hit the ball with any regularity.
Back to Yaz. He's got seven different Kellogg's cards. There is no consistency regarding batting gloves. From 1981 to 1983 he is shown with a glove on the top hand while in a batting pose.
His Kellogg's cards from 1975 and 1979 show him without a glove on either hand. In both shots he is in a batting pose.
In 1976 and 1980 he's taking a knee but he has the glove on his left hand.
Yaz was teammates with Hawk Harrelson who is credited with being the first to wear a batting glove. They played together from 1967 - 1969. Yaz won the Triple Crown in 1967 and Harrelson led the league in RBIs in 1968,
Did anyone else wear the glove on the top hand? I'll need to check out my Kellogg's cards.
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