Glove Experts

[AWA85]

Question for all the baseball fielding glove experts, is it possible to have a glove relaced? Looking at some fielding gloves that seem to have identical markings but different laces and curious if this is a possibility? Would players go to that extreme if they had a glove they wanted to keep using?

AWA85@live.com

[justinwc80]

Re: Glove Experts

Yes gloves are relaced quite often, I've seen a players laces get broken on a play and him hand it over to the clubhouse guy and end up using the glove the next day with new laces.

[LastingsMilledge85]

Re: Glove Experts

Would this be an example of a relaced glove? The webbing is entirely different in the two photos, but the gloves appear to be the same one.

[chakes89]

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I remember seeing a story about JT Snow talking about how he had the lacing on his 1B mitt replaced several times because he really liked used it for several years. I will see if I can track it down.

[chakes89]

Re: Glove Experts

Here we go:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1112312/index.htm

The article also has information from Omar Vizquel and Mike Matheny

[xpress34]

Re: Glove Experts

Walt Weiss used the same glove - 'The Creature' - for 12 years!!!

http://www.denverpost.com/rockies/ci_8741969

- Smitty