It's entirely possible to take a call or post a tweet with winter gloves on.

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Mesa, a cross between Ozzie Guillen and Dusty Baker, always entertained with his antics and consistent illegal rubbing of the baseball with his winter gloves during pitching changes.

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For whatever reason, I went through this latest New England winter without a matched pair of gloves.

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His dad's idea of how to toughen up his only son was to insist that Robert not wear gloves at work in winter.

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Matt Prior, Tim Ambrose and Steve Davies have all pulled on the gloves for England this winter, but Foster does have the advantage of having played with acting coach Andy Flower, a former wicketkeeper for Zimbabwe, at Essex.

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At the bottom of the pyramid the 300, 000 employees who check the tracks and the level crossings were all assigned winter gear such as appropriate shoes and gloves, accessories that they are often too poor to buy on their own.

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