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by **GloveCrazy** » February 14th, 2009, 1:40 pm

Great job, Ricky, I think we've unleashed a wordsmith. I did laugh at your bolded joke, but think it helps reenforce new terms that are embedded in paragraphs.

Tainted, Betsied, lazy boy, H&R are all very solid (and others as well), and to me tatooed is the one I'd likely use to described several names.

I do think, however, that your shirted term was perfect for the button thing. Why mess with an instant classic? I offer this substitute:

- Betsied - a large seam or crotch repair done in Frankenstein manner

I do like clobbeled a lot. Maybe it is more related to any brutal replacement part repair, like a buckle strap, or patch sewn in an usual place. Maybe quilted bites the dust. By the way, I never understood the virtue of a period repair as opposed to a modern repair.

I also think that you'd want kryptonite away from you so I think it belongs with tainted and possibly radioactive.

How about tracktor beam for you Star Wars fans on a glove you can't fight the urge. I also have a visual of a moth to a light but no suitable words come to mind. Candy sort of describes the urge itself.

I never for one minute thought that happy puppy, Nocodemus, would damage a glove so that one didn't work as much for me. I think the w needs to be in the word and maybe gnawed works well enough.

Looking back, I think my perplaced could use an upgrade. Yes, I am perplexed that this glove has somehow seem to be permanently placed in my collection, but maybe a stow-away better describes it.

- shattered - a really cracked glove
- diaper - doesn't quite smell like leather. Cat box? Too strong?
- contender - glove that should be more popular than it is
- redundorsed - both block and script endorsed. This is a placeholder.
- royalty - a top of the line glove? Like the term but is there a better use?

In honor of your Simpsons, Brett, how about we find a use for D'oh, maybe as a replacement for braced. I'd give the cartoon edge to Southpark, though.

Any other scenarios that need words?

by **Rickybulldog** » February 14th, 2009, 7:18 pm

Thanks Rob again for this thread. Probably my last post. It was fun and it got my mind off work and other things. (may have already been coined, but should be noted)

Cornerstone: A must for your collection. Key glove (Vance, Doak, 3 finer, etc.)

Cornerstone Keeper: Mint/EX version of the above

and finally, drum roll please.....for my 80's babies/friends:

Gremlin: a mildew or water stained glove. Watch out for that one!

by **GloveCrazy** » February 14th, 2009, 7:41 pm

I don't know man. Take several days off and put it out of your mind. I think we have a ways to go, though, and I suspect we will still hear from others. Then, down the road I'd like to see some top ten lists from other people to see what stuck. Rob

by **Cowboy7130** » February 16th, 2009, 2:17 am

How about ....

tacoed - a glove folded along a completely dysfunctional crease through the palm, making it virtually unusuable and unsuitable for display. "Man, I had to borrow my buddy's backup at the game the other day, but it was so tacoed from being in the bottom of his bat bag, I couldn't catch a thing!"

by **Cowboy7130** » February 16th, 2009, 2:24 am

or how about finger tainted - The sweat stained area on the back of the index finger stall where the owner/wearer of the glove slid his index finger outside of the fingerstall.

by **Cowboy7130** » February 16th, 2009, 2:28 am

"I didn't realize that Ted Williams model was so small; I think I got kid-gloved."

by **GloveCrazy** » February 16th, 2009, 1:24 pm

Yes, I think we have all been kid-gloved on one of those smaller 60s Williams gloves, and tacod is a great visual. Nice posts!

By the way, I still have the first glove, too, or at least the first one I remember owning, a hand-me-down XFG7 HOH Billy Williams. I wrote my name all over it, front and back, in blue sharpie. It took me a while but I was able to track down a couple nice -- unsharpied -- versions.

by **Mike**Mize** » February 16th, 2009, 6:54 pm

Then there's always the occasional '3o's or '40's Mojave Special, when the fielders glove in question has been clearly well cared for and well used, but seems to have an almost endless supply of sand way up inside the fingers. You can stand it up and tap it gently on your work bench and almost hear the roar of the crowd as runner after runner slides into third or second somewhere off in Arizona, Utah or New Mexico. "Yer Out",..."Safe!",..."He Dropped the Ball!"..."Yer Out!" .......Close play after close play for years (and lots of sand to prove it).

and

The Toxic Mold Glove (TMG), where you can't even touch it without getting itchy all over and getting that stinging feeling in your eyes.
I picked up an damp attic stored XPG6 of this type a few years ago and it lead me to a place called Midwest Freeze Dried that specialized in getting that mold out of antique museum quality hides from Africa. Freezing apparently kills mold. It actually worked after repeated tries and the scientists there were tickled to have a glove around for the time it took to detoxify it!

by **vintagebrett** » February 18th, 2009, 2:28 pm

I think we may have missed an obvious one and seeing that I'm married to a pharmacist I should have come up with this right away:

Viagraed or Cialised - when you buy a nice looking glove only to get it and find that it's really stiff.

by **Old_Gloves_New** » February 18th, 2009, 2:53 pm

And since you brought that subject up Brett, the opposite also applies. The "E.D." glove, a glove so beaten and floppy that it slides off the table if any part of it hangs over the edge.

O_G_N

by **okdoak** » February 18th, 2009, 10:38 pm

Picass-hole: Anyone who has ever put a paint brush to a glove. That's all I've got.

by **okdoak** » April 30th, 2009, 10:05 pm

Thought of two more as a result of my admittedly few trades:
Sir Glovesalot - Am impeccably fair and honest trader. No haggling, no nitpicking. He's like Mike's Natural Born Trader, only shinier.
Then there's the other guy...Oh how I rue that trade...
He finds out that you have NiceGlove A which he desparately (so he says) needs to complete his NiceGlove Collection and has NiceGlove B to offer (it's on your wish list, same condition, era, and ballpark value as your NGA! Should be simple, right?) Okay, let's trade! But now he says he traded NGB just two minutes ago. "Sorry about that, but I do have PrettyNiceGlove C instead". And it is pretty nice, but it's not on your wish list and definitely no NGB. You trade anyway. Why? BECAUSE I'M AN IDIOT THAT'S WHY!!! Couple days later he's back. "Hey, the trade fell thru for NGB, what else you got?" Just as you're about to offer your Cornerstone Keeper, it dawns on you: He's working the old bait and switch (and why not? Worked great the first time!) You muster up what's left of your self respect and resolve and shout "No! Not this time Master Switcher!! (anyone think I was going to use Baiter instead? Believe me I wanted to. Still do.) Good Day to you!!!" Later you find out he had 5 identical NGB's. Believe me, he's still got 'em.
Sorry guys, off work this week (maybe a little too much free time).
Hope I find one for Sir Glovesalot soon. None for you, Master Switcher. I've said Good Day!!!

by **vintagebrett** » December 7th, 2009, 8:17 pm

A Charlton Heston - a glove they'll have to pry from your cold, dead hands.

by **GloveCrazy** » December 9th, 2009, 5:15 pm

Yes, we all have some Charton Hestons. Nice one!

by **softball66** » December 9th, 2009, 7:30 pm

Don't forget "Glovenstein" the patched, sewn monsters.
or "MY GLOVE". . . my trusty AMG400K which has now seen action in a thousand battles for 15 tours of duty over meadows and clay. Lots of us have these faves, that "make the catch." :lol:

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