When did the first baseball glove come out?

History has not kept good records on who the first player to use batting gloves was. But it is thought that Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants is the first player to use them during a spring training game in 1949. He never used them in a regular season game. The first player thought to have worn batting gloves in a regular season game was Ken Harrelson in 1964 when he was playing for the Kansas City Athletics. Rusty Staub is credited with being the first player to wear batting gloves on a consistant basis during the 1969 season when he was with the Montreal Expos. By the mid 1970s they became common in MLB. Today (August 13, 2007), Ken Harrelson does the play-by-play on Chicago White Sox TV broadcasts.