I ordered some Rawlings Pro Shop Gloves

[offsidewing]

Ok, so I did it. I ordered a couple of the Rawlings Custom Pro Shop gloves from Eastbay.

Docglov was kind enough to take the time and answer a couple questions for me, which convinced me to order them.

Considering the cost of allocating a brand new Made in USA Horween ball glove via existing channels, the price wasn't too bad. I feel like a dork for getting my name on the gloves, but at least it will keep sharpie off of the leather.

I'll post pics as soon as I get the gloves.

[glovemedic]

Ok, so I did it. I ordered a couple of the Rawlings Custom Pro Shop gloves from Eastbay.

I feel like a dork for getting my name on the gloves, but at least it will keep sharpie off of the leather.

Don't be so self concious and appreciate your "connection" with real ballplayers. I know I enjoy having my name on a glove when I am out shagging flyballs. I'll never get to play MLB, but for a brief time each day when my son is willing to hit fungos I get to recapture that 9 yr old moment in the back yard when I put away the fly ball for the 3rd out of game 7. Its just something that makes it fun to be a baseball fan.

Have fun and enjoy the ride!

[toad]

Ok, so I did it. I ordered a couple of the Rawlings Custom Pro Shop gloves from Eastbay.

I feel like a dork for getting my name on the gloves, but at least it will keep sharpie off of the leather.

Don't be so self concious and appreciate your "connection" with real ballplayers. I know I enjoy having my name on a glove when I am out shagging flyballs. I'll never get to play MLB, but for a brief time each day when my son is willing to hit fungos I get to recapture that 9 yr old moment in the back yard when I put away the fly ball for the 3rd out of game 7. Its just something that makes it fun to be a baseball fan.

Have fun and enjoy the ride!

So well said!.................My 14 year old daughter helps me recapture those days. She's real good ball player (baseball not softball) This I think will be here last year.............she's on the small side and the boys are shooting up past her. And the boys think it's pretty cool that she really can compete.

[opticsp]

Hey, do you guys think my 11month old is too young to learn to hit fungoe?

[offsidewing]

Fungo, no. Just take it away from them if they hold it right handed.

Thanks guys for the sentiment about gloves.

I have different things I romanticise from my youth. That time in mid-August spent fishing at my aunt's place in Maine. Those few precious weeks between the end of travel ball and the start of Hockey Camp. Water so clear you could see your soul at the bottom. Fish so big (yes, that late in summer) that Bill Dance would lose his accent. Those few days when my cousins and I forgot about who's shoes we were trying to fill.

I have scars, MRI's, and those prom pictures my mother never got to take to remind me of my athletic youth with big league possibilities. I let a girlfriend in college borrow my glove for softball and haven't seen either since.

Hopefully these gloves will mean something more to me. These will be the gloves I use to play catch with my kids. These will be the gloves I use to play catch with my dad that one last time. These will be the gloves that offsidewing jr will ask on a forum in 40 years, "hey docglov III, could you tell me when this glove was made?" These will be the gloves my wife doesn't understand. These will be the gloves that take to the ball fields twice a week with my life long buddies.

Those same friends will heckle me and say, "hey offsidewing, did you sew that on there so you wouldn't forget your name?!"

I'll laugh, boot a routine grounder, and think about fishing.