Vintage Baseball Glove Forum

Many of you already know what some ball players do to break in their gloves, but here is another recent article in case some of you are curious.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a8EGgpFRYPIU

sounds like most break in methods lack time and patience. every one wants a quick fix

but then again, nobody is paying me millions to catch a ball either

spedrunr,

I was just talking to my wife about this.

To many pros, a glove is like a bat, just something to use and chuck when they are done with it, or when it breaks...they are disposable!

I think this is why players do all this wacky stuff to break in a glove as fast as they can.

But as you say, no one is paying me big bucks to catch a ball either, so who knows what kind of stupid stuff I would do to get a glove ready as fast as I could?

Too bad I will never find out!

Shaving cream seems to be a popular option. Lanolin is good stuff, but the assumption that shaving cream contains lonolin is a mistaken one.

This probably rates pretty high on the "geek factor" scale- several years ago, while my wife was shopping in a large drug store, I checked the ingredients listed on about two dozen different brands and varieties of shaving cream.

One of the clerks gave me a funny look, though not as funny as when I was searching through the nursing mother's supplies for lanolin breast cream!

Of all those cans, only one- "Beard Buster" from Barbasol- listed lanolin as one of the ingredients.

Things most all of them did have were water, soap, dye, stearic acid, isobutane, triethanolamine (okay- I had to look that one up) and a laundry list of chemical compounds that I couldn't even pronounce.

Wonder if any of that stuff is good for leather?