Glove Life

[JAM7]

How do you know when a glove has reached the end of the line?

 

[embesh]

leather cracked. ripped. cant perform same as when glove was in good shape. padding in heel and thumb and pinky worn out

 

[ibjr25]

Send it to the glove dr.

 

[nissben]

How do you know when a glove has reached the end of the line?

When u can't catch a ball with it anymore lol

 

[chazerous]

I didn't choose the glove life, the glove life chose me.

 

[Frisco Kid]

When u can't catch a ball with it anymore lol

This.

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[Rous]

When you loose confidence in it.

Not to be confused with simply needing a relace. I had a teammate whose glove busted a web lace midway through a game. I saw it in the dugout and pointed it out. He had missed it. THe laces were all so old and brittle, that when I later relaced it, the lace came off in pieces as I pulled them out. Catching at the time, had he taken one more throw from the outfield, the ball would have gone right through.

 

[MaverickAH]

When I've decided that I want a new glove. Duh!!! layball:

That's all it really takes. Any old excuse will do! :biggthumpup:


Seriously, for me, its when the leather in the pocket starts to thin out. I've never used particularly big gloves (nothing over 12.5") so floppiness has never been an issue.