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Article: PLAYING THE FIELD.(baseball gloves)(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Popular Mechanics
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Baseball gloves, like the game, are eternal.
Maybe you had a Mickey Mantle, or a Pete Rose, or a Reggie Jackson. Maybe you slept with it smashed between your mattress and box spring. Lovingly stroked its hide. Oiled it down. Covered it with saddle soap. Maybe you still have it. Maybe it's out in the garage, on the shelf with the WD-40 or in the attic under a pile of old clothes. Maybe you go there on occasion, late at night, when the wife and kids are asleep. When the house is silent and cold. You go there, pick it up and slide it on. You punch the pocket with a tight fist, run through your pitcher's motion and catch one way back on the warning track. You feel ...