First Gloves: Steve Carlton, Gold Glover

In my last piece about first gloves, which was focused on the fact that Robin Yount was probably athletic enough to play shortstop left-handed if he’d tried,

Scott Polk

commented that he also had an illogical glove when he was younger. His was a Steve Carlton glove, only it was for a right-handed player despite the fact that Carlton was pretty famously left-hande…