Gilded glove

The Glove gilded (English: Gold Glove Award ) is a price decreed with the best players of a league or a championship of Baseball for their defensive qualities.

In the major League of baseball, 18 gilded gloves are distributed at the end of each season after a vote of the managers and instructors of the teams of the League. A gilded glove is decreed by defensive position in the American Ligue and the National league. The players of external field are rewarded some is their position on the ground (right-hand side, center or left).

The price was created in 1957 by the company Rawlings, manufacturer of gloves of baseball, to reward the defensive performances for the players of the major League. For the first edition, only one price was allotted for each position without reference to league. The voters are then the journalists specialized in baseball. The following year, the players are invited to vote and two prices are decreed by position, for each league. In 1965, the methods of vote become those into force today (managers and instructors).

Striking facts

  • In 2007, Greg Maddux gains its 17th glove gilded at the station of launcher, preceding Jim Kaat which took down 16 consecutive of 1962 to 1977 at the station of launcher.

  • Brooks Robinson received 16 consecutive gloves gilded at the station of third goal of 1960 to 1975. It is the best total for a player of position.

  • Darin Erstad is the only player to have gained a glove gilded as acrobat (2000 and 2002) and as player of interior field to the first goal (2004).

  • the gilded gloves are also distributed to the Japan since 1972.

Players who gained the most gilded gloves

See too

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