Airbags have been required in all new passenger vehicles since 1999, with data suggesting the system reduces driver fatalities in frontal impacts by 29% and front-seat passenger fatalities (aged 13 ...

Despite burly padding and high-performance designs, modern baseball gloves fail to protect the battered hands of baseball catchers. While stubborn pros are not likely to trade in mere comfort for ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen hasn't had the conversation with 7-year-old son Steel yet, but the Pittsburgh Pirates star knows it's probably coming at some point. Steel, already playing in a ...

“In the last ten years it has been estimated by an able statistician that the annual number of accidents has been 37,518, of which 3 percent have been fatal; 25,611 fingers and 11,016 legs were broken ...

From Little League to the Big League, any baseball player can tell you that catching a fastball can hurt, and now a new study shows it. Researchers found that despite improvements made to the ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Despite improvements in the catchers' mitts used by professional baseball players, the gloves still do not adequately protect players' hands from injury, according to a study by ...

The catcher's main objectives are to catch the baseball, block the baseball on errant pitches and throw out base runners. The catcher can perform this drill with or without catching gear. Catcher ...

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 ...