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How to Store Your Glove Over the Off-Season

Four or five months of sitting does more damage to most gloves than a season of playing. Here's how to put one away properly.

Every method here is something people genuinely do, usually with good intentions. Several come from advice that was sound thirty years ago.

A lace almost never fails without warning. It fails in the third inning because nobody looked at it in March.

Dirty, dry and stiff is not damage. That's the single most common misreading, and it's why people throw away gloves that had years left.

Mitts take a beating fielders' gloves don't, and they're built differently to survive it. Most general advice applies. A few things don't.

Most advice about buying a child's first glove is written by people selling gloves. This is written by someone who sees which ones last.

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