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The catcher, seriously.
No. The first catcher's mask is credited as having been invented in 1876 by Fred Thayer who modified a fencer's mask for the catcher of the Harvard baseball team. Click on the 'History of the Catcher's Mask' link below to read about the history and see pictures of the early catcher's masks.
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