You can spend your time smelling leather somewhere else, as Nike has moved away from all leather for its latest baseball glove. The Nike Vapor 360 glove uses a mix of synthetic materials and ...

Players from MLB down to Little League send their gloves to Chris Petroff, and, inside his backyard work shed, he re-laces, restores and repairs them.

He's been repairing baseball and softball gloves in his living room for 45 years for people all over the country. He's even ...

Does your glove need some love? Are the laces broken? The fingers floppy? The leather cracked from leaving it outside in the rain? You need to call the Lonettis. Jim and Dom Lonetti are mitt ...

The crack of a baseball bat, the creak of fresh leather. Baseball season is in full swing. And one of the last bastions of American glove manufacturing is swinging for the fences with a bright ...

A tiny room in Cotati is filled with the musty smell of seasoned leather. Stay there long enough and you'll get a feeling that every baseball glove in the world either has or will pass through.

Baseball glove repair man Robert Megerdichian worked on a glove in his Cambridge home. He often does his work with a ballgame on in the background. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff/Globe Staff ...

He scrutinized the laces before ambling out of the Mets clubhouse and into a hallway, where he picked up his bat and used it to pound the glove’s pocket 11 times. He shook his head.

Several years ago, McGuire found a glove left at a field. It needed some work, so he brought it home put in new laces and conditioned the leather to bring it back to life. Post by 515358808629308.

It might be America’s favorite pastime, and few things are more personal to baseball-lovers than their first glove — the smell, the feel, the memory of childhood summers.

For many of the Los Angeles Dodgers growing up, it was a gift. Getting that first baseball glove as a kid was a rite of passage — forging an identity carried with them from dirt streets in t… ...

"There's nothing more personal than your own baseball glove," he wrote in the foreword to "Glove Affairs," a book by Noah Liberman. The Primo, made of Italian leather, costs $400.