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by bearsbaseball
Search around and go on the manufactures site. Akadema recomends not to use water because it will destroy the glove, it says on its site!!!!!!!
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Jan 23 '07
7:30 pm PST
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False (Reply to this comment)
by bearsbaseball
You must be a pro because only pros use that method because they can always get a new one. My coach is a pitcher for the Atlanta Braves minor league team. He would not reccomend to use tis method because instead of waiting three weeks people would rather spend a day and cut 3 years of the gloves life.
Just use shaving cream and play catch!!!!!!!!!
Don't make it any more confusing
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Jan 23 '07
7:27 pm PST
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too wet (Reply to this comment)
by champsummers
I have always been skepical of putting a glove in water. Your advice to keep it in a few minutes is an interesting spin. Thanks to my son leaving his new glove out in the rain last night...and in a place where a puddle gathers at that...I have a chance to see how it goes when it is soaked for 16 straight hours...wish me luck...
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Apr 02 '05
11:16 am PST
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Water Sounds Good (Reply to this comment)
by winshawn
Excellent advice about how to limit the time in contact with the water. As far as the research that says water breaks down the leather, I believe that is the point when trying to create a good pocket. Leather will stretch when wet, which is why it is a quick way to get a good pocket. I would say the water method is the quick way to get a great pocket. The shaving cream way will get you a great pocket with an incredible amount of work.
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Mar 18 '05
9:21 am PST
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NO WATER - Do the research (Reply to this comment)
by hardballsurf
Listen up folks. Do the research. There is enough evidence out there that water is one of the worse ways to break a glove in. Water causes leather to break down and eventually dry out and crack. Use a light application of a lanolin based oil (no shaving cream - the soap in shaving cream is very bad for your glove). Play a lot of catch and then keep the glove wrapped up around a softball in the web and a baseball in the pocket during the breaking in process.
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Feb 19 '05
11:28 am PST
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Excellent tip! (Reply to this comment)
by john-corbett
I'll have to try that method for when I buy my sons their next gloves.
I've always used either shaving cream or linseed oil to soften the leather and them take a softball and a baseball and put them in to help form the pocket. Then I wrapped in rubberbands and placed it under my mattress when not in use.
I notice that some of the gloves they make today for kids already come with a well defined pocket and are fairly easy to squeeze. This sort of takes away from the "bonding" process a kid gets to have with his glove by breaking it in.
Thanks again for the glove tip.
That's a keeper. I'll have to bookmark this one.
-John Corbett
Little League Coach and Baseball Lover
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Jan 07 '03
6:20 pm PST
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by LRGuis
Great review - great advice.
Welcome to the site!
Leah
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Jan 07 '03
7:04 am PST
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