US Patent No. 287331 Mask for Base Ball Catchers by AK Schaap October 23 1883 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Battle of Chickamauga

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US Patent No. 287331 Mask for Base Ball Catchers by AK Schaap October 23 1883 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Battle of ChickamaugaUs Patent No. 287331 Mask for Base Ball Catchers by Ak Schaap October 23 1883 A. K. Schaap's 1883 schematic shows a wire cage shaped to the human face in an age when catchers still crouched bare handed behind the plate, every padded strap and forehead brace drawn with the gravity of a man designing armor for a sport that had only just decided its players were worth protecting. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives