I remember this subject coming up in a baseball game on TV a long time ago. I recall an announcer (I think it was Bob Costas) said it was after the 1953 season.
If you ever watch the original TV broadcast of games 6 & 7 of the 1952 World Series, at the end of some innings you can see players tossing their gloves on the ground and trotting to the dugout.
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