Charles Harvey Webster, age, 81, passed away on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at home. He was the inventor of the popular Palmgard protective glove, which has been sold for decades by Markwort Sporting Goods.

Webster was an entrepreneur and inventor for many years. He owned and operated the former “Gentleman’s Cue” pool hall in Pikesville, MD, for several years and from 1987 to 2015 he owned and operated Palmgard, a specialty sport glove company for baseball and football. He came up with the idea of a batter’s glove with the added pad protection in the critical areas of the index fingers and the palm when his son, Jeff, was

playing youth baseball in the 1980s and needed more protection than his ball glove offered for his sore fielding hand.

Palmgard has been a successful game-changing selling base-ball/softball protective product for over 30 years.  

He is survived by son and daughter-in-law Jeffrey C. and Michelle Webster; daughters and son-in-law, Carol Ann Woodall and Courtney Ann and Luke Miller and grandchildren: Tyler Webster and wife Madison, Jessica Woodall, Brendan Webster, Jake Miller, Holly Miller, Victoria Miller and Luke Paul Miller.

He was predeceased by siblings Robert and Thomas Webster, Mary Stallo, Hilda Trageser, Ruth Meyer, Patricia Garrish and Maureen Webster.