Franklin’s newest batting glove, the Powerstrap, has taken one more step into the mainstream with the addition of the glove in Franklin’s online customization site. “The ultimate step forward is ...

Whether the pink accents highlighting the Franklin-made Mother’s Day batting gloves across MLB or the one-off custom designs for players such as Ronald Acuna or Francisco Lindor, the official batting ...

Irving H. Franklin, a longtime sporting goods manufacturer who developed the first batting glove specifically designed for baseball with Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt in 1983, died Nov. 10 at 93.

A new shipment arrived from Franklin on Saturday, and Alex Verdugo quickly unwrapped a new pair of batting gloves. “They feel the same,” Verdugo said before an eventual 9-2 loss to the Rockies in The ...

Few items of sporting equipment are as disposable as batting gloves. But don’t mistake their impermanence for a lack of importance. Credit...Franklin Sports Supported by By Zach Buchanan Reporting ...

Irving H. Franklin, whose company Franklin Sports of Stoughton has supplied batting gloves for top hitters in Major League Baseball for decades, liked to say his education came from “street smarts ...

Francisco Lindor is one of the most exciting players in baseball, and the Mets shortstop has become something of a style icon over the past few seasons as his star has grown. Franklin Sports, which ...

STOUGHTON, Mass. -- Irving H. Franklin, who co-founded Franklin Sports in 1946 with his brother Sydney FranklinIrving Franklin was a true visionary in producing the prototype of the batting glove that ...

When the cameras zoom in on J.D. Martinez, Xander Bogaerts, and many other Major League Baseball players up at bat, a company tucked away in the suburbs of Boston gets a few seconds of screen time.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Stoughton-based Franklin Sports Inc. is a third-generation ...

Irving H. Franklin, an innovator in the sporting goods industry who teamed with Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt to invent the baseball batting glove, died in his sleep Thursday in Falmouth, Mass. He was 93 ...