How to Re-Lace a Baseball Glove

Video Transcript

"The question is asked, how to restring a baseball glove? Usually when a baseball glove needs to be restrung, it's because one of these pieces of leather in the glove has somehow broken, through dry rotting or other means or just from the strain, and wear and tear, of constant banging the ball into the glove, but you're going to need a couple of things. Number one, you're going to need some pieces of leather, that you can get at most baseball supply places, sporting goods stores, if you will, and you're going to need one of these needles. Now, it's a needle much like a needle and thread, in the fact, that it has an eye up here, to put the leather through, and a point here, to push through the glove. Whatever part of your glove that needs to be restrung, be sure that you take the knots loose. Remember, where those knots are, and that you take the glove apart, in the area that needs to be restrung, in a manner that you can remember, how to reverse the process, and put the leather back through, in the exact same way it came out. Again, you can use one of these needles. These are very handy. It's almost impossible to do without one of these, and basically, you just put the leather string through this eye needle, and thread it through the glove, or mitt, just as it came out, when you took it apart, for that part that's broken,just retrace your steps with that. Push it through, pull the leather through, and then when you get out to the end, tie it off as it was tied off before, and basically, you've restrung whatever part of the glove that has broken, and in a short way, that is how you restring a baseball glove."