Baseball

Yes it's true! I haven't thrown a baseball in seems like 10 years and I'm out there playing catch and running bases with a pack of 8 year olds. Our first game was supposed to be this Saturday but we got rained out =\
I had hoped, prayed, begged, to the fates that somehow my parents had kept my awesome, perfectly cared for baseball glove. The glove I begged my parents to spend the extra $20 on at big5 because it was the perfect baseball glove. I went through the painstaking ritual of placing the ball in the glove just right, wrapping rubber band after rubber band, then bungee cords to secure the the ball for periods of up to a week. Oiling the surface and cleaning, and making sure all the knots were tight. It was the holy grail of baseball gloves, and its gone.
I searched far and wide on the internets for another like it, and it was a sea of hideous black leather baseball gloves with golden leather accents, what the heck has happened to baseball gloves?!
I found a glove that came the close to my glove, apparently Rawlings is aware of this baseball glove nostalgia and charges a premium for a proper looking glove.
This little baby to your left is the closest thing I can find to the glove I had as a child. It now retails for $160 plus shipping. I couldn't bring myself to purchase it. I went to target and got a fairly respectable glove for about $25.