 How did I become interested in baseball? Wow. Was I ever not interested in baseball? I played since I was four years old, I think. I can't remember a time that I wasn't interested in baseball. I think there's probably no object in American sports that has as much ritual associated with it, has as much meaning associated with it, and has evolved as much over the course of the game. And there are a lot of stories to be told about economics, about manufacturing, about ideas about masculinity that come through the glove. And so it seemed like a natural object to study. The game was so different before there were gloves. I would find references to games in which there were 10 hits and 20 errors in a game. Now, today the average number of hits per game is probably about 9 or 10. The average number of errors per game is half an error per game. So if you think about something that's changed the game of baseball, nothing more than the glove has changed the game in the same way. This is a glove I've used pretty much since I started playing baseball again as an adult. What I like about it is it's designed and made in the United States and the Nikona glove factory in Texas. I also love how it broke in for me. I've had a lot of gloves that haven't broken in the right way and you'll catch a ball and it'll pop out of the pocket. This one, the ball just goes right into the pocket every time. And it's been a great glove for me and I've used it to play all my old man baseball.