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The catcher's mask was invented in the mid 1870s by a player on the Harvard Baseball team. Click on the 'Invention of the Catcher's Mask' link on this page to read an article about that Harvard team and the catcher that invented the mask.

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1877 A Harvard student named James Tyng was the first recorded player to wear a catcher's mask in a game against a semi-pro team from Lynn, Massachusetts on April 12, 1877.

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