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There are some great looking Rawlings and Mizuno Gloves on this site. Anyone know if they will ship to the states?

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Along the lines of those gloves there is a seller on eBay that has similar gloves and does ship to the U.S. Look under seller I.D. toshiaki_imae.

Right now he has mostly Zett and Hatakeyama but I've seen other brands like Mizuno as well. Had a copy of Dice-K's glove when he was in Japan I had my eye on.

There are some really nice gloves on that site but I don't understand a word on it either.

I has just surfing on Japanese websites and saw this interesting H-Web:

I found a new seller on ebay for Japanese baseball gloves.

blue_heven4004

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZblueQ5 ... ooZ1QQrdZ0

A couple of his auctions have this description included with them.

There are two kinds of baseballs in Japan.
One of kind is "KOSHIKI"(regulation-ball) baseball.
This baseball is the one similar to the United States.
The proffesional baseball is this.

Generally, it is played more than the junior high school student or the high school student in Japan.

Another of kind is "NANSHIKI"(rubber-ball) baseball.
This baseball is peculiar sports in Japan and it is played using a rubber ball.
Generally, the student more than the school child plays.
(But there are a lot of kinds of rubber balls, too.)


In Japan,general people plays using "NANSHIKI".

Both "KOSHIKI" and "NANSHIKI" are official game in Japan.

Because "KOSHIKI" is a little dangerous.

The material of glove for "NANSHIKI" is thinner than "KOSHIKI".
The weight of glove for "NANSHIKI" is lighter than "KOSHIKI". [url][/url]

I lived in Japan for two years and saw some wild-looking gloves when I was there. I was curious as to why I didn't see the same gloves in the U.S. I really don't care for gloves that are skybluepink, but that is only my personal taste. You see a lot of baseball players in the NPB (Nippon Pro Baseball) in Japan using very flashy gloves.

I used to watch businessmen play nanshiki. A nanshiki ball is a lot less likely to knock out someone's teeth while he is playing in a Saturday afternoon game. It doesn't travel as far either, which is important when there are space constraints like there are in Japan. I own a nanshiki ball that I found along a river.

I was especially surprised to see Rawlings gloves in colors different from what you'd see in the U.S. It seemed like the leather was tanned differently, but I'm not certain about that.

One of the guys I play ball with was stationed in Japan and picked up an assortment of overseas gloves, both from Rawlings and other makers. "Color" seems to be a common theme on those gloves!

My favorite was a 13" all-red Rawlings Trap-Eze glove. The only stampings (all in english) were "Rawlings Pro Model" in the pocket.

Some of these Japanese models look like fire. But I wonder about the quality?

I ran into this website with all kinds of Rawlings models. Also check out the Rawlings Japanese website (they are partnered it seems with asics) they have some unique technology behind there gloves which seems particle. I wonder why the gloves over here have not implemented these ideas yet.

http://www.rakuten.ne.jp/gold/ksports/index.htm



http://www.asics.co.jp/baseball/index.html