04-13-2018, 06:01 PM
macphanatic wrote:
Without their own glove, how do you have a catch with them at home? They'll never learn to catch as a result of one game a week.
Who said anything about not buying a glove? Of COURSE each player needs his own glove! A glove is playing equipment -- my comments addressed the excessive requirements for protective gear.
I still have my very first glove, which I got when I was four or five. It's a bit the worse for wear, having been used at one point as a tug-of-war toy by two of our dogs, but it's still usable.
And then there's the glove that was stolen from me when I was a teen. No glove, before or since, was as perfect or fit me as perfectly as that glove. To this day I still lament its loss, forty years later.