Storied baseball gear maker Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. developed what it hoped was the game's ultimate status symbol -- a $400, Italian leather, hand-sewn glove. But most attempts to persuade big ...

That glove, called the Bill Doak, began an evolutionary process that today culminates in the Rawlings Primo, the most expensive baseball glove ever made. It costs $400.

Hermés is widely known for their luxurious belts, but now the French manufacturer has created one of the most expensive baseball gloves of all-time to go along with their 1,925 USD baseball bat.

The most expensive baseball glove that's not an antique probably is this $14,100 model manufactured by Hermes of Paris. It's said to be made of "gold swift calfskin" and required 25 hours to make ...

The Glove. For the first few decades after baseball emerged in the 1840s, it was considered “unmanly” if you wore a glove while playing, so players did without, catching balls with their bare ...

Within 10 years, Rawlings submitted the first patent for a baseball glove. The catcher’s mitt was invented by Albert Spalding in 1880 and he later parlayed that into his sporting goods empire ...

Hermes, a company well known for fine leather goods and accessories, is now selling a very expensive baseball glove and bat. The glove is made with gold swift calfskin; it took 25 hours to stitch ...

If the legend is correct, the baseball glove was first used extensively by a career .165 hitter, Charlie Waitt, 150 years ago.