Asbestos Sports Equipment Padding : eBay Guides

The following images and information is linked to the Asbestos Oddities Found in the Home and on eBay guide. Additional Asbestos Odditied include: Books and Pages; Cigarette Filter; Home Hot Pads; Artificial Snow; Modeling Clay; Sad Irons; and Tokens, Tags and Poker Chips. Use the guide Asbestos Historical Products and Literature to help in your search. 

Baseball Glove Padding

The evolution of the baseball glove had its origins in the late 1870's as a glove for the hand with the fingers and thumb removed and some padding in the palm. Later when overhand pitching was in use in the 1880's, catchers began to use heavier padded gloves. The padding for gloves also evolved from bulk cotton and bulk wool to covered tubing, jute, pressed wool felt, and asbestos felt. For more information see The Evolution of the Baseball Glove at the Rawlings webpage.

A Spalding Regulation Model 15 with fingers lined with asbestos.

In the lower right hand corner of this box it lists 'Asbestos Padding' as one of its features.

Catalog page of Reach Fielder's Gloves. No. 56, No. 00X, No. 74, No. 00W, No. 0B, No. 0BL 

each listed as padded with best asbestos felt. 

Football Helmet Lining

1900's football helmet with asbestos lining