Is that glove horsehide????

This weekend I was unable to really get into my research since I had drill. However as I did have a little bit of time to google image textile mill baseball and found some interesting facts about the equipment that was used in the 20's and 30's

Gloves back then were made from horsehide and were considered mitt-gloves based on the way that they fit your hand. Unlike the gloves of today these gloves were in fact like wearing mittens from what I gather from the pictures that I saw. I just sit here and think about the intensity of pain one would feel when they catch a line drive that comes screaming at them off of a 48 oz bat lacquered in the tobacco spit of the batter.OUCH!!! This was in fact the weight of Black Betsy, Shoeless Joes bat and method in which he used to wreak havoc on the Textile League pitchers and later up in the bigs.

Here are a few images one of the glove and on of Ole' Black Betsy the infamous bat of the Brandon Mill golden child Joseph Jefferson Jackson