How to Break In a New Baseball Glove

Video Transcript

"The question has been asked how to break in a new baseball glove. Well, there's a lot of things that you can do to break in a baseball glove but some of the things I would suggest is we want to first soften the leather and make the glove so you can do this make the glove bend in this matter so it's easier to hold on to the ball. Some of the things you can do is to add Tanners oil which softens the leather. Neatsfoot oil although be careful with neatsfoot oil because sometimes tends to make the glove heavy or there's many other products you can buy at your local sporting good store that suppose to be helpful to breaking in a glove. The other thing you can do is literally go at it and do a lot of catching in it because that's one of the fastest ways to break in a new baseball glove. You can also get a glove and pound in a ball excuse me and pound into the glove and that helps with that and then constantly bend the glove in a matter so that you can get so that it has more flexibility and be able to bend in that matter. Now, be careful when you're squeezing the glove like this that you don't develop a wrinkle in the pocket. If you get a wrinkle in the pocket, the glove is going to wear out faster and it's not going to have the pocket like you want it to be. So, I would suggest to help with that situation is to put a ball in your glove when you're done with it each day and then put a rubber band or something elastic around it to hold it in place and that'll keep this pocket nice and big. So, that you can have the flexibility that you need and not get any wrinkles in the palm of the glove which is very important but you can do lots of different things to break into a baseball glove but there's not substitute for just playing going out into the yard into the field and playing a little catch because that'll do it faster than anything and basically that's how you break in a new baseball glove."