A baseball glove can contain wool and linen in its filling, says Vaad L’Mishmeres Shatnez of Lakewood.
In the picture below, a Rawling baseball glove is shown that was recently found to contain in its filling many various colorful recycled fibers and threads. A shatnez laboratory would have a very difficult task to ascertain that this glove is actually free of wool and linen.
“To verify that a baseball glove has no חשש שעטנז, one should have the glove tested at a qualified laboratory to verify that it is not filled with recycled materials,” the Vaad L’Mishmeres Shatnez said.
It’s a baseball glove, not an article of clothing.
If you are wearing it, it is prohibited.
so let me get this straight, a baseball glove (not an article of clothing) MAY contain recycled fibers, of which there is a remote but sudden likelyhood of said fibers not only NOT being synthetic (very inexpensive) but both linen AND wool (very expensive fibers), and the post doesn’t actually clarify whether shaatnez was found, it just creates a panic so everyone starts cutting holes in their ball gloves? There are so many chashashim here, I am getting dizzy.
Why do you think a glove is not clothing?
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Hatorah chasah al mamonam shel yisroel.
Before we start spending money, let’s get an actual rabbi to tell using it even needs to get checked.
(Happens to be my rabbi said that I don’t have to check a lot of my pants….)
Good Boy !
Most people I know would WELCOME this information.
Not much different than reporting on glass shards found in Ketchup bottles…
To those that are skeptic about the issur of shatnez
in a baseball glove, please refer to very last line of Mishna Brurah in Hilchos Tfillin, Siman 28. He quotes that a tfillin bag of shatnez is prohibited!!