My son was a catcher and didn’t use batting gloves. He used Gorilla gold and it left no sticky residue like pine tar. As a catcher who wouldn’t use batting gloves he wanted to make sure nothing was put on the balls to cost his pitcher.
I once got warned if I said another word I would be thrown out. All I said to the home plate blue was “ That’s not a dinner plate there’s corners on it” 😁