The leader and heart of a baseball or softball team is often the one crouched behind home plate. The catcher is involved in every play, and the position’s unique duties require a unique glove. Anyone ...

Reporting from Tempe, Ariz. — Big Glove. It’s not a spinoff of a popular HBO series, it’s the new mitt Angels catcher Mike Napoli will try this spring. Napoli has better-than-average power for a ...

Back on Dec. 2, 1963, the MLB rules committee convened and decided that the ridiculously-oversized catcher's mitt being used to haul in Hoyt Wilhelm's fierce knuckler would no longer be allowed by the ...

Former Ohio State catcher and current Detroit Tiger Dillon Dingler was named the 2025 American League Gold Glove award winner ...

Dingler is the first Tiger to win a Gold Glove since Ian Kinsler in 2016 and the first catcher since Ivan Rodriguez in 2007.