How to Break In a Leather Baseball Glove

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Tony Naile and today I want to talk to you about how to break in your leather glove. Again, this is a common sense thing. Keep your glove clean. Let me touch on a couple things what not to do. The old remedy, run over it with a car three or four times, submerge it in oil or water, those are not things to do. And your good gloves most manufactures in the palm of your glove here, the reason you see it get darker earlier is because you have two strips of leather and in the center of the leather they have a break-in oil already made by the manufacturer. Alright, you can use break-in oil if you like. Preferably, I like shaving cream or baby lotion. I use baby lotion more because it smells better. It's a conditioner and it's a cleaner, Unlike some oils, oils soak into your glove. They make your glove heavier they attract sand and dirt much easier. If you're going to use shaving cream, just a cheap shaving cream is fine as long as it has lanolin in it. That's an ingredient that softens and conditions your glove better. The best way to break-in your glove is to break-in with your hand in it as much use as possible. Put the conditioners on the parts of the glove that bends such as right here, where it bends. Once you condition the glove, put some ointment on it or lotion of some kind put the ball in your glove and your normal hand shape, close the glove up, tie if you like, put a string around it, put under your pillow, let it break-in and keep your pocket formed. And then catch everything in sight."