Are You Taking Care Of Your Baseball Glove?
Why you need to baby your baseball glove
Your baseball glove protects you and helps you play your best, so doesn’t it deserve some special care? A leather baseball glove can last for generations if you take the time to keep the leather supple. If you’re ready to commit to caring for your baseball glove, then read on for ways to do so.
Protection is the ke
While you can’t control the weather, you can keep your baseball glove from other nasty conditions.
First of all, you want to store your baseball glove indoors if at all possible.
Leaving your baseball glove in the trunk of your car will expose it to humidity and even freezing, if you’re not careful. The best advice is to bring your baseball glove inside with you at the end of the day.
And this should go without saying, your baseball glove should not be left outside.
Keeping it soft
What helps you when you catch and release a ball from your baseball glove is the suppleness of the leather.
And that’s why most good gloves are made from this material.
The trick with leather is that since it’s a natural product, it needs to have moisture added to it in the form of oil. There are special oils for your baseball glove that you should use.
Any old oil just won’t do.
You’ll need to take an old rag and apply the oil to the surface of the baseball glove (or as the instructions tell you) and rub in thoroughly.
Adding this oil back to the leather will keep it supple and able to move.
Other people have said that rubbing shaving cream with lanolin over a baseball glove will also keep the leather supple.
Cleaning up
You won’t be able to keep your baseball glove completely clean, but you will want to remove anything that might harm it.
That means any dirt that gets into the fingers or the pocket should be brushed away. This and the rest of the advice will help keep your baseball glove in top form for every game.