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Check out this item I found on eBay:

End time: Nov 12, 2012 8:15:29 PM

Item: circa 1900's BASEBALL CATCHER REEDED LEG PROTECTORS OR SHIN GUARDS..RARE!!!!!!!!



Alt URL: http://www.ebay.com/itm/circa-1900s-...-/140877093619

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Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone. GUYS ARE THESE BASEBALL OR HOCKEY.

I know this may be an odd question, but did your phone actually put that message at the bottom of your post?

That looks like hockey to me. There is no fold above the opening for the foot, a crouching catcher would cause a crease there.

I was thinking hockey too!

I thought hockey also and no I wrote that.

I agree with hockey too. They look like vintage goalie pads.