Pee-Wee League Boxed Set

Franklin, a sporting goods company founded by Sydney, and Irving H. Franklin was established in 1946. Irving Franklin was first employed at a shoe factory in Brockton, MA, and later joined his grandfather in the scrap leather business, which he took over when his grandfather passed away. When the Korean War began, Mr. Franklin obtained a variety of government contracts, and produced gloves, trigger finger mittens, and a variety of other products.

The company moved on to make footballs and other sports equipment, toys and sports medicine products. Franklin also produced a line of Juvenile baseball glove, bat & ball sets, which were sold in toy, drug, and discount stores, for about $1.98.

The Pee-Wee League boxed set, came with a genuine leather BS104 Big Boy League Fielders glove, a 2.25" Pee-Wee League sponge rubber baseball, and a Pee-Wee League by Franklin 18" baseball bat. "All scaled down in size from professional models" The glove and ball was also sold in a separate boxed set.

In 1962, Irving Franklin went to Japan and began to import baseball gloves. Franklin created the first leather batting glove, which were produce with a unique tri-curve design for superior fit and feel. In 1964 Ken Harrelson of the Kansas City Athletics was credited with starting the custom by wearing a golf glove to protect a blistered hand in a game against the Yankees. He hit two home runs.

In 1983, Franklin teamed with Mike Schmidt, of the Philadelphia Phillies, to design a batting glove, and spread it through big-league clubhouses — and on to all levels of baseball. Franklin became the official batting glove of Major League Baseball since the late 1980s.

Pee-Wee League By Franklin Glove Bat Ball


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Big Boy League BS104 Fielders Glove Front	Big Boy League BS104 Fielders Glove Back

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