Anybody done anything dumber than me throwing away my A3000?

[WMD_172]

the trucks a little worn, but shes still gorgeous, been through thick and thin calling 7 places home in the past 3 years

any one have a pro6xtcb i can look at to confirm if this is the model I will obsess over until I buy one

[GloveGypsy]

I sold an A2 "L" USA to a friend who liked to work on baseball skills with his sons. I sold it to him at my cost, $150. Sweet pocket in that one. Nice patch, too.

A couple of years later, I asked him how was the glove and he just kind of grinned and said "you don't want to know what happened to that glove."

Later, he told me that he threw it in a 5 gallon bucket in the back of his truck and it apparently stayed there for some time.....through several hard summer rain storms.

He said that when the leather dried, it cracked and just wasn't nice anymore, so he chucked it.


Bummer, man.

[docglov]

want to be sick . think about all the gamers I was given in the years I was going to spring training.All the 80's and the first 4 years of the 90's. lots of time when I would issue a new glove to a player I he would give me the old one to fix or get rid of. I have 2 sons who were in little league age at that time and I would bring them home to them. Then later would mow them out in the tall grass or they just dissappeared along with huge quanities of baseball's. I would get all the tough one for my boys like Bob Gibson or steve Carlton, I doubt if they could find them now. Gloves they lost were Like a signed Dale Murphy, Pete Rose, Pee Wee Reese whom we meet at Junior college world series when he was with Louisville slugger, I have a tape of him and my then 9 year old playing catch, OH the stuff lost over the years!!! gonna go blow my nose now before I cry.

[GloveGypsy]

I know what you mean, Bob.

A ball glove to some people is a prized personal possession, a handcrafted work of art that has utility.

For others, it is just something to be used, and then discarded....like a disposable shaving razor.

I play softball, and I am amazed at the disparity of what some of the quality players pull out of their bags. Some of those gloves are total crap!!! Others have real equipment.

When was young, my family did not have deep resources. I learned to take care of the things that I had.

By the way, in my story above about the dad that had the A2 "L" underwater in a bucket. His son is a real glove guy, not to mention a great little ball player. Last night, he emailed me a request about getting a custom glove for his son, Nicholas. I obtained the Eastbay link through some of the other forum members and I am sending him your way.

There's no doubt in my mind that this little guy will absolutely covet his new glove.

[softball66]

Bob, when Rollie spoke to us in St. Louis in the mid 90s about repairing the ML players' gloves. He told us that if the glove was beyond repair, that they just threw it into a big junk bin. One of our guys raised his hand and asked if Rollie still knew where the bin was.
Whitey Ford told me the same thing about pitching, caps, shoes, gloves into the trash barrel at the end of the season. Ford has a painful quote about gloves.