
Beyond The Glove: A JustGloves Podcast
JustGloves
March 26, 20251 hr 3 min
Baseball
#27 : SCOTT CARPENTER - Crafting 1st MLB Synthetic Baseball Glove & Modifying Ben Zobrist's Gamer
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Scott Carpenter crafted the very first synthetic baseball glove used in an MLB game in 2011. And the list of MLB player gloves he's worked on is impressive, including the glove of the 2016 World Series MVP, Ben Zobrist.
In the early 2000's, Scott left a successful career in the New York City art scene to pursue his youthful passion of baseball gloves. This took him to rural Ava, MO to work at a Rawlings factory as a janitor during the final year it produced gloves in the United States. While in Ava, he picked everyone's...