Early baseball mitt dating back to the 1880s/1890s.
Source: Lelands.com
Uniform Ad. Page from an 1878 Peck and Snyder Sporting Goods Co. catalog, with a ballplayer wearing a Cincinnati uniform.
Source: Lelands.com
Evolution of the Glove from the Late-Nineteenth Century
Through the Mid-Twentieth Century.
Source: GloveCrazy
Equipment Advertisement, Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide, 1889
Source: American Athletic Foundation's Digital Archive
"William Ewing, Captain of the New York Base-Ball Club," Harper’s
Weekly, New York, November 9, 1889. A portrait of Ewing in his
catcher’s equipment.
Source:
Doc Lawson's
19th Century Base Ball Prints
Benjamin Shibe Applies for Patent to
Manufacture Baseballs, 1883.
Source: U.S. Patent Office
Bud Hillerich of Louisville applies
for patent for manufacture of baseball bats, 1902.
Source: U.S. Patent Office