How to Measure Glove Size

Series Summary

Baseball is a sport played with a bat and a ball. In baseball, there are two teams of nine players each, and the goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged 90-feet apart at the corners of a diamond. Offensive players take turns hitting, while the defense tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in a number of different ways. A player on offense can stop at any of the bases and try to score on a teammate's hit ball. The teams switch between offense and defense whenever the team on defense records three outs. One turn on offense for each team makes an inning, and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game is the winner. In this free video series, learn some basics of baseball and how to coach it. Coach Mike Nolan, a professional baseball coach, talks about basic baseball equipment, such as bats and gloves. Curious about coaching baseball? Learn the best ways to teach baseball to kids or adults. Discover how to hit home runs. Let Coach Nolan demonstrate how to throw a variety of pitches: submarine, forkball, breaking ball, drop ball, screwball, knuckleballs and many many more! So, take the time and learn more about playing baseball today!

Video Transcript

"Hey, I'm Mike and I'm here to show you how to measure a glove today. Whenever you get your glove, you're going to take the glove, and you're going to measure from the base of the mitt to the outside of the edge of the glove. This way you can get the gage of how long the glove is, that should give you the measurement of the glove. Many of these gloves, you'll find, will have a measurement already written there for you so, you'll have an indication of how long the glove is without having to manually measure it. There are many different types of gloves that you can use in baseball, there's infield mitts, such as this one, there's also, outfielders mitts that are a bit larger in size. The difference between the two gloves, the infielder mitt is more shallow and shorter to be able to get the ball out and in a quick fashion to make quick plays in the in field. The outfielders mitt is much times larger because the speed to get the ball out isn't as much. Also, it allows you to get greater reach when you reach for a fly ball, There are also, differences in depth of the pocket, the deeper the pocket the harder it is to get the ball out. So, infielder must shoot for a much more shallow pocket where as an outfielder may want a much larger pocket so, he can keep that ball secure. And this is how you measure your glove."