
Effectively Wild Episode 1869: Big Coach on Campus
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
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Baseball - Should a Fielder Wear Two Gloves at One Time?
In cricket, wicket keepers do it routinely. The reasons for it would seem to apply to the suggestion of first basemen doing it when no runners are on base. Would it be legal? That is the question. Richard hirschburger says rule three point o five specifies that the first baseman may wear a leather glove or mit one could interpret the use of the singular a to mean that he can use only one. If this were the intent, the rule could easily state this. And frankly, a close reading of the official baseball rule book proves mostly how poorly written the rules are. I want to see someone test the boundaries here. At the very least we will have a new
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