Those giant foam fingers you wave in the air at sporting events might seem to tower over the crowd, but they actually have a pretty humble origin story.

And Marcos Maidana had to change his gloves from horsehair to foam in 2014 on fight week after Mayweather came away from glove inspection less than impressed with the Argentine's choice of glove.

(Fortune Small Business) -- Wilson. Rawlings. Easton. Big brands like these dominate the $132 million baseball glove industry, paying star players big bucks to wear their gear. Enter Vinci. For ...

Per MLB rule 1.14, gloves other than for the first baseman and catcher may not exceed 12 inches from the heel to the tip of any one of the fingers and may not be more than 7 3/4 inches wide.