Mizuno Prospect Series GPP1002 Youth Baseball Mitt

This glove must be broken in. When the glove first arrived and my six year old tried it out, the balls kept bouncing out. I tried the glove on and the balls I tossed in kept bouncing out too. I removed the glove, opened it and placed it under a heavy armoire (be careful if you do that) for a little while. When I took it out my son was able to catch with it. Then I rubbed Barbasol shaving cream onto the mitt, placed a tee ball inside (in the spot where the ball naturally landed, near the bottom of the webbing), wrapped the glove tightly with women's elastic headbands (the thin black sticky kind from the drugstore), and left it overnight. You're supposed to put it in the sun and use baseball glove oil, but it's been 40 degrees and rainy here and I haven't had time to get oil. The shaving cream worked. I checked the glove the next morning and a nice pocket had formed where the ball had been the night before. I'll stretch the glove some more and probably use oil and leave it in the sun...Read more

i grew up playing baseball and wished my parents would have bought me this grade of glove for starting out. be sure to oil and condition this glove and it will last your child easily until he is ready to upgrade.