How To Break In A Leather Baseball Glove

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When you buy a new baseball glove - either for yourself or for your son or daughter - it will be vital for you to figure out how to break in the glove. After all, a brand new leather glove might be a thing of beauty, but it is not much use out on the field until it has been properly broken in! Follow these simple tips, and you will be able to get your glove into game shape before it ever goes out onto the field.

Putting a ball in the webbing of the glove and wrapping a rubber band around the outside of the glove is the old standby for breaking a glove in. Even as you start to play with your glove and break it in with other methods, you should still store your glove in this manner when it is not in use, as this will give your glove that "catching shape" you so badly need it to have.

Another thing you can do is pick up some boiled linseed oil, some saddle soap, or some shaving cream, and then rub liberal amounts of one of these on the pocket and lining of the glove.

One mistake many people make is drying their glove using a heater or a blow dryer when it gets wet - but doing this will cause the leather to crack, and will take the glove in the opposite direction of where you need it to go! And of course, actually playing with your glove is the best way of all to get it into game shape - use it in practice, use it in games, and use it to play catch even when it is not "practice time" or "game time"! The more often you play with your glove, the better shape it will start to be in.

A well broken-in glove is a true treasure - and is great fun to play with - and when you follow these tips, you will be able to get your glove to where you want it to be!