Lady Knights - those were the two biggest reasons I wore them too. Another reason was to take care of my hands while playing - hitting (plus hours and hours of batting practice :
), sliding, etc. If you're practicing year round and often, taking LOTS of hitting instruction & hitting practice, and then playing hard, your hands can take a beating thru all of that. In my high school baseball days during the season I did not put in "half" as much work as my 11u daughter puts into it now (in the off season), and my hands were still blistered and scraped up a lot. Being a guy though, I did not mind that much then, but it seems sorta silly to put my girl thru that.
She is using Easton VRS gloves, they have padded palms. She did not like them at first because of the padding but they have broken in now and she likes them, has a firm solid grip and feel, and the vibrations from a poor connection do not seem to rattle as bad. Hitting 2-3 times a week in the off season, it seems to matter to her, fwiw.