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<text id=90TT0875>
<title>
Apr. 09, 1990: Business Notes:Sporting Goods
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 09, 1990 America's Changing Colors
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 67
Business Notes
SPORTING GOODS
Out-Mitting the Competition
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<p> Ever notice how some North American baseball fielders seem
to have gloves as big as bushel baskets? Not for long. This
season major-league baseball plans to enforce an old rule,
previously ignored, that bans any glove larger than 12 in. from
heel to tip. The clampdown has sent glovemakers hustling to
redesign mitts, some of which exceed 14 in.
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<p> St. Louis-based Rawlings, which supplies more than half of
all big-league mitts, believes it has beaten such rivals as
Wilson and Mizuno to home plate. "We were in a much better
position to respond quickly. We had new designs and new cutting
dies within a month," claims Scott Smith, spokesman for
Rawlings, the only glovemaker with a factory in the U.S. "There
was a lot of initial resistance to the announcement from our
competition. If they haven't satisfied the new requirements,
we'll get more of the business." Glovemakers give big leaguers
the mitts for free, but sandlot players have to pay $150.
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