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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

There's lots of folk remedies for baseball gloves, including shaving cream, slathering it with shaving cream and microwaving it (really), olive oil, and glove oil, among other things.

The thing that I've found works best, both for restoring old, dry gloves and for helping break in new ones, is lanolin. It's sold by the tube, in the drugstore you can find it near the baby products (nursing mothers use it). Squeeze out little bits of it and rub it into the dry areas on the glove, working it into the leather as deeply as you can. Then, stick a ball in the pocket and wrap it with rubber bands or tie it in place with string.

-Al