by spedrunr » May 21st, 2008, 12:52 am
i would agree with glovemedic and doubleswitch. many of the young players are playing ball year around which puts a glove to more use. but many players don't take care of their gloves either. no conditioning, leaving them in the trunk etc.
i also agree with offsidewing, the leather does matter. the old school horween and the tanning methods were superior as far as durability, feel and shape retention. i've seen plenty of abused OSH's that i was able to recondition and re-lace with great performance results.
the "now" generation is too impatient to break in an old school horween glove. they want to take the glove from the store that day and play with it in the game that night. so of course, rawlings execs hear their cry and comply. Docglov mentioned that Mizuno started the soft glove trend and started putting them in college and pro lockers. it caught on b/c of the quick turnaround and all the other companies had to follow suit.
too bad