When you think of how a baseball glove is made, you could be like me and picture a long assembly line filled with machines and little human interaction.
But astonishingly, with all of today's technology, the baseball glove is 90% handmade from start to finish.
The leather is cut out from a giant piece of leather that looks almost like a giant Mario Brother's costume piece.
The glove itself consists of two pieces of leather that is shell and one that is the liner, padding, glue and stitching.
After the two leather pieces are cut, the padding is added. Parts of the glove are cut, woven like a basket and then glued to the shell of the glove.
After the glue is set, the most entrancing part of the process is started, the hand stitching.
There is no machine that can complete the hand stitching portion of the glove making and the stitching takes as much as two hours to complete. But what you end up with is something that looks nothing like a costume Mario glove.
So the next time you are at the store and see a glove listed for $20, perhaps you will be able to appreciate the time and effort that went into making this piece of art.
Watch the video on how baseball gloves are made after the jump....
(go to the 36second mark to skip through the bs)
