How to Buy Your New Baseball Glove

Is your old glove worn out? Just starting to play? Here is where you can figure out how to choose your new glove.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Some money

1. 
   my catcher's mitt

   If you are looking for a t-ball glove, skip to step 2.
   Decide what position you are going to play most often. If you are playing 1st base or outfield, you will want a glove with a bigger web. 3rd base, shortstop, 2nd base, and pitcher will want normal sized webs. If you are looking for a catchers mitt, look in the specialty mitt section.

2. This step goes for choosing all different gloves. When you go shopping, there is size after size, type after type, brand after brand, and it all gets kind of confusing. So here's the easy way. Usually there are 2-3 categories of size. Most of the time they are: kid's, junior's, and adult's. You find your size under those categories. Then their are the brands and types. When looking at this step, try on a few different gloves and see what is the most comfortable. The glove should fit your hand well, not too big or too small. It should be pretty easy to slip on and off, but when on your hand, it shouldn't slip. Your fingers should come to almost the top of the finger slots. Catchers mitts should enough padding so you won't hurt your hand, but not too much so that you can't close it part way.

3. Choose what features you want. My 2 gloves both have Power Close, and have helped me many times in games. Once you have picked out your glove, give it to the cashier and buy it. Congratulations, you have your new glove. Now you have to break it in. For now, just close the glove. At night and when your not using the glove, it helps to put a ball inside it.

Tips & Warnings

• It takes a while to be able to close your glove easily, so you should always be trying to break it in.
• Gloves don't have to break the bank. If your child is going through a growth spurt, then buy a cheaper glove. If you are not going through a growth spurt, then you can buy a more expensive glove.