SIDEWAYS GLANCE DON'T LOSE THAT GLOVIN' FEELING.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth --The book: ``Glove Affairs: The Romance, History and Tradition of the Baseball Glove.'' --The author: Chicago-based Noah Liberman, a staff writer for Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal, with a forward by Yogi Berra Noun 1. Yogi Berra - United States baseball player (born 1925) Berra, Lawrence Peter Berra, Yogi . --The other essential info: $19.95, Triumph Books, 150 pages. --The execution: A shoebox shoe·box n. 1. An oblong box, usually made of cardboard, for holding a pair of shoes. 2. Something resembling or suggestive of such a box, as a plain, rectangular building or a cramped room or dwelling. Noun 1. full of baseball cards can be replaced, but a well-worn baseball glove sitting on a shelf that served as a trusted companion could make any clear-thinking adult run back into a burning house. As informative as it is nostalgic, this book has nothing to hide on the horsehide, starting out with the player-glove relationship testimonials, why those who used them originally were ridiculed, to the evolution of company designs, why different sizes came about, what's collectable, the pros and cons pros and cons Noun, pl the advantages and disadvantages of a situation [Latin pro for + con(tra) against] on how to break 'em in and even where to go to get 'em fixed. --Did you know: Early in the 20th century, a catcher's mitt was called ``the windpad,'' and a glove was a ''hand-shoe.'' Handschu is the German word for glove. --Mink oil vs. Glove Loogie lanolin lanolin, greasy, yellow substance extracted from wool. When purified, it is used as a base for ointments and creams, as a lubricant, and in finishing and preserving leather. It is also a constituent of some varnishes and paints. oil: The former is on the list of don't-use products (with petroleum jelly petroleum jelly n. A colorless-to-amber semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum and used in medicinal ointments. Also called petrolatum. , saddle soap saddle soap n. A preparation containing mild soap and neat's-foot oil, used for cleaning and softening leather. saddle soap Noun a soft soap used to preserve and clean leather Noun 1. and a microwave oven). The latter is among the best stuff to use, with directions on how to find it (www.gloveloogie.com and lexol.com) and the important spots on the inside and outside to apply it. Neat's-foot oil, shaving cream, water, mallets and good-old American spit also work, but you could let it happen naturally. ``I just catch a lot of groundballs; I let it take its regular shape,'' says Gold Glove-winning shortstop Omar Vizquel. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (book: ``Glove Affairs: The Romance, History and Tradition of the Baseball Glove.'') |
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