Brandon Nimmo seldom posts on Twitter, but jumped on the platform this week to reference the new style of batting gloves he has started wearing. For the 30-year-old Mets outfielder, the red, white and ...

Almost every major league baseball player wears batting gloves nowadays. And then there’s Jorge Posada. The Yankees veteran never wears gloves. “I just like the way it feels without them,’’ he says.

Before the 1960s, batting gloves made brief and very rare appearances. But on Sept. 4, 1964, Ken "Hawk" Harrelson began to change all that. The platoon player for the Kansas City Athletics was not ...