Mizuno Corporation

Kazunori Ayama

Norifumi Ito

Ken Motooka

Masaki Terashita

Daisuke Kogawa

A web part comprises a lower-side web part provided on a pocket-part side of a glove and an upper-side web part provided on an opposite side relative to the pocket-part side. An extended part resulting from extension of a ball-receiving leather of a main body of the glove into between a thumb stall and a forefinger stall constitutes the lower-side web part. The lower-side web part is provided on a back side of the glove in comparison to a smoothly curved line which connects an intermediate point of the thumb stall in a thickness direction thereof and an intermediate point of the forefinger stall in a thickness direction thereof in a sectional surface in a lateral direction starting from the thumb stall, passing through the lower-side web part and reaching the forefinger stall.

Catching tool for baseball or softball

A glove comprises an outer leather member including an outer leather pocket portion and an outer leather back face portion, an inner leather member, inserted in the outer leather member, having a palm member provided along the outer leather pocket portion and a back member provided along the outer leather back face portion, finger portions formed between the palm member and the back member for receiving the fingers of a wearer of the catching tool and a reinforcing portion selectively provided on a specific position of the palm member.

Catching tool and method of designing catching tool

In a catching tool for baseball or softball, a lining leather including at least a back-side leather and a palm-side leather is inserted into a surface leather including at least a back leather and a ball-receiving leather, and the lining leather has inner-side finger stalls defined by peripheral edges of the back-side leather and the palm-side leather which are sewn together. A finger part stabilizing member is provided along at least a region on right and left sides in a region covering a root part through a fingertip part of a wearer's finger inside the inner-side finger stall. The finger part stabilizing member is provided in at least one of the inner-side finger stalls, which are an inner-side thumb stall, an inner-side forefinger stall, an inner-side middle finger stall, an inner-side fourth finger stall, and an inner-side little finger stall.

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Osaka, Japan

Kazunori Ayama