Franklin teamed up with Mike Schmidt in the 1980s to design and make the batting glove that remains today the flagship product of the Franklin Sports brand \u2013 and a favorite of batters\u00a0stepping up to the plate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We tweeted about this last week \u2013 marking the passing of\u00a0Irving Franklin, co-founder of Franklin Sports and co-inventor of the batting glove. Franklin teamed up with Mike Schmidt in the 1980s to design and make the batting glove that remains today the flagship product of the Franklin Sports brand \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baseballbats.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}