2 mitts

Adam Carlton,
I think it’s smart to have two catcher’s mitts simply because it takes a period of time to get a catcher’s mitt broken in to where you feel comfortable with it during a game. Break it in during long toss and bull pens and save your already “broken in” mitt for games and then when your game mitt dies, you have a broken in mitt and you start the process all over again. Your dad will understand.
Good Luck
Fungo

My son has his favorite that he uses every game, he has an older one that he keeps as an emergency (broken lace, ect...) and he has a newer one he's breaking in to use two years from now, hopefully his freshman year in college.

Two mitts is essential if you are a full time catcher at high school and above.

We are lucky to be in Nike land. Nike reps keep coming by and dropping equipment on our team. Just this spring they gave (lent?) my son and the other catcher on the varsity a brand new glove to break in, then came back with new shin guards and chest protecter, just when we were getting ready to start replacing all that stuff. They said they would come back with a new face mask, since his personal one broke and he's been using the team's.

The glove is almost game ready.

Nice not to have to lay out the several hundred bucks for all that stuff!

My son has 4 catching gloves. 2 Pudge gloves, one in game shape the other past its prime due to poor repair job, another Pudge like Wilson glove he is breaking in and a old no break catching glove he uses for training, warmups etc.

Plus he has a infielders and outfielders gloves.

its helpful.I just got my 2nd about 2 months ago but its good to know that I have an extra.My old gloves lacing is starting to become cruddy

I was thinking about it- still am, but I doubt my glove is going anytime soon (1 year old, and its HOH). As a question for everyone- your 2nd gloves- same one or different sizes?? Thanks.

Just a note to your dad.......the higher you go in baseball, the more you see multiple mitts/gloves.....

My son this year (DIII) needed his 3rd basemans glove....he has 2 (one gamer and one breaking in) a 1st basemans mitt and a catchers mitt.......

Not to mention the gloves he has used last season at SS and 2nd....

Yeah, ill second the one about same/different sizes, should you have two of the exact same mitts, or should you have like a regular and a smaller or larger one, say for someone with more heat, or a knuckler, not that there are many in high school. I would think they don't have to be exactly the same, unless you love the mitt you have, but they need to be similarly designed, so you can switch back and forth easily. What do yall think?

Fungo hit the nail on the head here as far as Im concerned. We have always done it that way. A primary glove that you catch games with that is broken in and ready to go. Another glove just like the one you catch in games with that you break in in bull pens practice and long toss etc. If your primary glove goes down during a game there is no adjustment needed to a different glove you just go get the newer one.

Rob, any chance of sending the Nike guys down to Atlanta - reinvested this year of all new equipment (except glove) and I have no money left!!!

Me too. I don't care for nike gloves, or nike anything really, but if he wants to give me a free glove, I'll gladly take it.

I found a place, its like a warehouse sporting goods store, and they sell pro preferred gloves for 130 bucks. I am going to go and look, and see if they have any mitts of those or any other models, and get one, but my dad doesn't want me to. He thinks it's a waste to buy another expensive glove (150-250) when I just got a new one about a month ago. I know it is a lot of money, but how can you pass up a deal on such an expensive glove, when it will be used. I also may buy an extra one, and sell it on ebay or something. Making a 50 dollar profit. Even though I just got a new one about a month ago, and I only have that one mitt, is it justified to buy another one, especially at such a good discount?

Adam Carlton,
Do you have an address or email address of the warehouse that has the pro preferred for a $130 bucks? I would certainly love to get my mitts on one for that price. Any info would be appreciated, help a fella out, my man!!

sorry, but I went there and they were completely sold out of righty gloves, and mitts. If you know any lefties though, they can get an a2000 or a3000 glove for around 70 bucks. Unfortunately they don't have a website that has all of that stuff on it, but its called Larry Black's Sporting Goods, in Dallas Tx, and do a web search, and their phone number will be on a webpage, like a citysearch page, but they don't have any more righty gloves left. Sorry, I couldn't even get there fast enough.