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Saturday, December 26, 2015

Carl Yastrzemski Did Something Odd - Did Anyone Else Demonstrate This on a Kellogg's Card?

Another thing that I noticed recently while watching a Ken Burn's baseball video is the topic of today's post.  Carl Yastrzemski was shown in the video during his Triple Crown season.  What surprised me was that he was shown with a batting glove only on his top hand which for him was his left hand since he batted left-handed.

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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