Ever watched the major league on TV? How about seeing a baseball game live? Or studied and played it in your gym class? In any case, if you’ve seen or heard of baseball, you probably know the player doing hand signs and catching fast balls at the home plate. Yes, he or she is no other than the catcher.

At the receiving end of the pitcher’s fast balls, heavily padded catchers mitts are very important to provide the catcher with extra protection. These are also wider than the usual gloves and are without fingers. As with baseball gloves which have different kinds for different positions, catchers mitts also vary. There are rookie and professional mitts, fast pitch mitts, and praying mantis catchers mitts, among others. Of these, the praying mantis catchers mitts seem like a good catch to help your pitcher strike them out!