Baseball Glove

A Well Worn Baseball Glove Is Personal Property Owned And Cared For With Pride.

A Baseball Glove is made and comes in many Styles, Sizes, and Colors and Oh so many different Brands

A baseball glove is one special piece of baseball gear which is considered personal property and is cared for and used with pride. Old, new or even borrowed the baseball player feels a kinship with that glove.

I would venture to guess that there are very few new gloves bought directly by the ball player. Most of the time a youngster's first glove is bought by his dad or an uncle.

This little simple act or gift makes owning that particular glove even more special.

Whoa be unto that "dad or uncle" who has no clue as to which player is the favorite hero of the youngster. Most new gloves are signature models of the great players.

Some of the very first baseball lingo a young players learns and begins to use is the playing name of his favorite basebll hero.

If a youngster visualizes himself to be a power hitter or great slugger he will make believe he is the "Babe" if he is a good slick infielder he might want to emulate Phil Rizzuto "The Scooter."

It is as plain as plain can be a glove with the name of his very favorite hero is a prized possesion and a keepsake after his early playing days have finished.

A young ball player normally will already have his baseball playing hero and wants to achieve stardom and emulate this very favorite.

The maker of the glove is not nearly as important to that young baseball player as the signature of his hero on the glove. It could be a Wilson, Spalding, Rawlings, Reach or most any make as long as his heroes name is on that glove.

Most of the time even the color of the Baseball Glove or playing Equipment is of little significance compared to that signature.

A kid showing up at school with a new glove is the center of attention come recess time. A new signature model catchers mitt or first baseman's claw just has to be slipped on the hand of every boy on the playground.

You see a ball glove was a precious commodity out there on the playground. Ironically the baseball glove was one of the most shared things in all of baseball.

The compassion of having a friend or classmate playing and yearning to have a glove to catch those hard hit liners was ample reason to share the use of ones glove.

"Brother can you spare a glove?" A team coming to bat would leave their gloves on the field for opponents to use.

At one time, it was common practice to leave the fielding glove on the playing field. After that practice was outlawed due to risks to other fielders and possible interference with a live ball, players would sometimes carry their gloves in their pants pockets.

The selection and hoped for ownership of a favorite glove always had a little ones heart set on having a glove with his favorite ball playing hero's signature.

Handing a young player a Mickey Mantle signature glove when the "Mick" is his hero, causes wide eyed excitement which is unbelievable. By the same token, little toughie who wants to be a catcher like Yogi Berra, the "Yogi" mitt would be like Christmas every day.

Then to there were some of the all time greats remembered for their greatness as the giants of handling the glove and being super defenders. Willie Mays "The Say Hey Kid" roamed the outfield running down what appeared to be far gone extra base hits but he pulled it down with his baseball glove like it was a tar baby.

The all time great third base fielding Brooks Robinson used his glove like it was a vacuum cleaner down at the hot corner. Brooks fielding gems and consistent stops with his trusted glove earned him the nickname "The Human Vacuum Cleaner."

"It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word."

Brooks Robinson (The Human Vacuum Cleaner)

Now stay with me and let's go back to the days when I was a youngster just beginning to enjoy baseball. Most baseball gloves found in use on the playground or sandlot were almost worn out hand me downs.

Honestly I do not remember exactly where my first baseball glove come from but I vividly recall it had seen better days. Baseball players referred to old worn out glove as "rags."

My first glove was a rag of the first order. The inside palm area had a huge worn out hole and much of the padding had escaped.

Naturally it was too big for my small hand and my fingers would not reach far enough into the finger slots to keep the glove open. The fingers would fall over like an old wet dishrag. Maybe that is where the term "rag" come from.

I'll confide in you a little known secret of how an inanimate object such has a baseball glove can teach. What you say? Yes teach.

Here is the way it teaches. Remember most of the padding was gone from the glove. One quickly learns that slipping that ball more toward the webbing and quickly giving way with the hand so that hard fast ball will not sting so badly.

The flip of the wrist to open that dishrag floppy glove at precisely the right second taught the art of coordination quicker than if fifty coaches were bellowing at you on how to catch a baseball.

That ole worn out "rag" of a glove taught me to be quick with the wrist, give way with the catch and take that ball from the glove quickly so as to show no pain of the catch.

You would never want a big brother or your ball playing buddies to see you winch because of the pain of a stinging ball you had so gallantly flagged down and hung onto.

That quick retrieval and instant release of your throw after a catch is an essential element of playing winning baseball.

The more I reminisce about my baseball growing up days the more I realize what a great thing this game provided for me.

Go shopping and buy your kid a new Mickey Mantle glove or a Brooks Robinson glove or maybe just a Rawlings baseball glove.

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