A Hello and Introduction to the Community

[sixpointone]

Hi All,

My name is John and I just wanted to say Hello and Introduce myself to the Community.

I've always enjoyed Baseball Gloves, but I am not much of an expert on the topic. Rather I am just a guy who has a passion for them, the smell of the Leather and the Snapping/Cracking/Popping Sound a Glove can make when Playing Catch on a Good Day. I recently bought a Wilson A2K 1796 and I am just proud to say it is mine.

I grew up on The Baseball Bunch and as a result Johnny Bench is my Favorite All Time Player and I am a lifelong Cincinnati Reds Fan. And everytime I Play Catch I cannot help but to smile and think of Ran Kinsella and his Dad tossing the Ball in Field Of Dreams.

I hope I am not rambling too much, although I know I am. I guess it is just that I feel I am amongst Friends with similar interests and I wanted to share what it is that makes me love Baseball in general and Gloves in specific, which is why I am here today.

Thanks for Reading and Thanks for this great Community,
John

[opticsp]

Hi John: Welcome. I have not been on this forum long but can tell you it is great fun. The people here are very nice and helpful.

Enjoy.

[Cowboy7130]

... you are definitely in the right place, amigo! Welcome!

[BretMan]

If you're a lifelong Reds fan...you can't be all bad!

I grew up on the Big Red Machine of the 70's and have put together as many of their gloves as I can find- Bench, Morgan, Rose, Foster, Perez, Concepcion. Still looking for a Gullet, Tolan, Griffey Sr.- and Joe Nuxhall!

[opticsp]

Since we are on the Big Red Machine thing I will tell you my most exciting day. Davey Concepcion is from Ocumare, Venezuela, a very small town on the Caribbean Coast. During a Christmas vacation when I was nine to visit my uncle who had a beach house in Ocumare (my family is from Venezuela) guess who I met, played catch with and received a glove gift from. That's right! And...the glove is lost.

[vintagebrett]

Welcome aboard!

[wjr953]

John,
Welcome! Glad to have you on board. I'm still fairly new to the forum too. Unlike most of the other members here that are collectors, I've been buying, re-doing gloves and re-selling them. I don't always make money at it, in fact I'm quite happy to just break even on most gloves, but I do get a lot of personal satisfaction giving new life back to old gloves. The feeling of putting an old "veteran" back into the game is beyond words. In some small way, I feel it's my way of giving something back to the game that I love. It sounds corny I know, but for me that's what it's about. There's always room for another lover of the game of baseball and of course a lover of quality baseball gloves. As one of the other guys said, you've come to the right place.

br

[wjr953]

John,
Oh and one other thing, please don't bring up 1975, okay? 'Nuff said! lol

br

[sixpointone]

Hey All,

Thanks for the kind feedback, you’ve really made me feel Welcomed!

I am new to the more technical side of Gloves, but I have a love and knowledge for Tennis Racquets, so I hope that might help me out with things such as Lacing a Glove which I've never done before.

I did recently Order the Book Glove Affairs which I received and the Wilson A2000 Glove Care Kit which I hope arrives soon. In the meantime I take Gloves Friends and CoWorkers Gloves home and clean them up and Condition them which I enjoy, they seem to appreciate and I hope extends the Gloves life.

An interesting thing about being a Cincinnati Reds Fan is that I am actually from the Boston, MA area. And in 1989 when I went to Cooperstown to see Johnny Bench Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame I think everyone else from my area went there to see Carl Yastrzemski.

All My Best,
John