Softening a New Baseball Glove

RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By Jon (Guest Post) (07/03/2008) I watched something on t.v. and Orlando Cabrerra said he puts his glove in a microwave to get it nice and soft. I tried it. All I did was put it in the microwave for about 45 seconds, then took a stick taped to a baseball and pounded it for a while to get the form of your hand and also makes it softer. Wait about 5 minutes and put it back in the microwave and pound it again. Repeat this it should get it soft. Ive only been doing this for about 10 minutes and its already getting soft. So keep doing this it should be soft and formed to your hand without using any oils or anything like that. Report Spam or Abuse Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By Derek Jeter (Guest Post) (06/09/2008) Play catch, use it and be competeitive and more importantly have fun. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By (Guest Post) (04/24/2008) Rub pocket of glove with lanolin oir shaving cream.This will soften the leather. Wrap it with a ball in the pocket and play a lot of catch.....DON'T PUT A LEATHER GLOVE IN WATER OR OVEN..... Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By Shnoobz (Guest Post) (04/12/2008) I prefer the old fashioned way. The best way is to just keep whipping git into your glove to form your perfect pocket. I do use glove conditioner the first day and not again until the color of the pocket wears off a bit. But in the beginning apply glove oil (any kind) and whip the ball into your glove repeatedly. Whenever you get tired, simply place the ball in an area you'd like to form and put it under your mattress(fingers part down). Make sure you treat it like its your girlfriend, show it love, care and treat it to the finer things in life hahahaha. It'll give you everything in return. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By lucas pulis (Guest Post) (03/24/2008) Put some olive oil in it or any kind of oil in it then put it in the microwave for about a minute then play a good game of catch. Editor's Note: I don't know about putting a glove in the microwave. I'd be afraid it would damage it. I have never tried it but I'd use caution. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post by gurth (136) | (02/10/2008) Profile | Contact Rub well with Dubbin and put in the sun to soak in. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By momo (Guest Post) (02/09/2008) Never put your glove in the oven! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By Julian Dunn (Guest Post) (03/21/2007) Ok, this sounds weird but i swear it works. You begin by soaking your glove in a bucket of water, not long, maybe 2 to 3 minutes, then let dry by hanging it in a cool dry place, so as not to form mold, for a week or until it is completely dry. Then, you can rub petroleum jelly as a leather conditioner on the entire glove. The leather should soften. THERE'S NO GUARANTEE THIS WILL WORK. DO NOT REPEAT THE PROCESS IF YOU ARE NOT SURE YOU HAVE ALLREADY DONE THIS THEN DONT DO IT! Also if your glove seems to be over oiled This may seem weird, try rolling your glove in kitty litter. Kitty Litter is grounded dried clay, and is routinely used at car service stations to sop up oil spills. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL WORK. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By LOH (Guest Post) (02/10/2006) use rawlings glove oil, not too much, then put a ball in it where u like the feel, then tie rubberband around it for a day. just throw the ball in it how you like it, and play catch Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By CHML (Guest Post) (04/11/2005) Many years ago I was faced with the same problem. My daughter won a new Wilson glove. She was very young and had small hands. I took the glove outside with a piece of wood and a hammer and folded the webbing all different ways and started hitting it with the hammer. It took quite a while. I also used leather conditioner on it. When not in use, I wrapped rubber bands around it with the ball in the pocket. 30 years later it is still in useable condition. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By JR (Guest Post) (04/09/2005) Breaking in a new baseball glove is a bit of an art form. (It's also changed a bit over the years, with the advent of newer "pre-broken in" gloves.) Generally, the higher quality the glove (the better the leather) the longer it takes to break it in. Catcher's mitts are the hardest. In the pros, they send new catcher's mitts to be used in the bullpen for a full season before they're game ready. They do sell stuff for breaking in gloves faster. I forget what it's called, but there's a spray on foam which you rub in and then you put the glove in the oven at a low temperature for something like four minutes. You probably do this two or three times. You want to be careful with this and adhere to the times and temps exactly. And you don't want to do it too much because basically what you're doing is breaking the leather down. They also sell oils, like gloveolium, which are good, but which you want to use sparingly or else the glove gets saturated and very heavy. (Those oils are actually best for re-conditioning older gloves.) But even after you do all that stuff, you still need to break it in. I like to put two baseballs in the pocket and wrap it very tightly with rope or a belt and leave it overnight. Then you want to open it up and pound the ball in there, over and over and over for as long as you can take it, then wrap it back up and leave it over night again. (You can treat it with oil or whatever in between.) It can be a fairly long process. If it's not a professional quality glove, it can be ready to use in a game in a few days or a week, though it will still be a bit stiff. The more you use it and pound it with the ball the quicker it will break in. Your son might not feel it is perfectly broken in until near the end of the season. But then he will have a glove that will serve him well for many seasons to come. Hopefully your son's at an age that he isn't going to grow out of the glove relatively soon. Post again if you have any more questions. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post by truerblue (56) | (04/09/2005) Contact Apply neatsfoot oil to the glove to soften and condition the leather. I don't know if you can still buy this or not, but I would try a sporting goods department in the discount stores or a sporting goods store itself. That's what a relative of mine used in the 70s and 80s for baseball gloves. After application, you need to "work" the glove to soften it up. If neatsfoot oil is not available, I would try something like mink oil (for leather footwear) or saddle soap (a cleaner but also will condition). Both of these products will soften and condition the leather glove. Tori Report Spam or Abuse RE: Softening a New Baseball Glove Post By Sharon Shearer (Guest Post) (04/09/2005) You can buy glove softener at most sporting goods stores, but my boys used to use white vaseline and put a ball inside to form a better pocket and tie something around it if you don't have a rubber band that big use something like an old tie. After they left it like that for awhile they'd regrease it and take the ball out and tie it together flat. Takes alittle working with for a few days till you get it like you want it. Let me share a little story with you about those Baseball years. As a young mother one day I was whining to a friend about having to wash all those dirty pants. She looked at me and said "Trust me-- there will come a day when you'd give anything to have a dirty pair of baseball pants to wash." Years fly by so quickly--they're grown men now, and my advice to you is Keep 'em playing ball , it makes good kids.They learn discipline and keeps many a boy out of trouble in those formative years. Good Luck--a former BASEBALL MOM Report Spam or Abuse