how do you dry a water soaked leather baseball glove? ( left out in rain)?
464495
Keep your baseball glove in a cool, dry place when it is not in use. Do not leave your glove where the heat could affect the leather (the trunk of your car). \nIf your glove gets wet, dry it with a towel and let it air-dry. Do not put it in the oven or near a heater as it may dry out the leather.\nDo not over oil your baseball glove! A few time each season is plenty. \nPetroleum jelly keeps the pores open and in effect, keeps the leather “alive” while providing a softening condition. There are other cleaners and conditioners that are safe, especially those scientifically developed for glove leather\nKeep the laces tight.
99921
A rubber or latex-free glove, taped at the wrist.  I'd be very cautious not to get it wet as it could become infected.
200092
Use it...and a little shaving cream, use about the size of a quarter for the first 3-5 days that you are going to use it.   DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT, put a ball in it and tie it with laces, rope, elastic, or whatever you'd tie it with.  You want the glove to mould to the shape of your hand from the inside out, and so it moves with your hand, after all it's to protect your hand, not to the shape of the ball outside in.  Whoever that person at sports authority who said to fold it inside out, should at the very least be fired for saying that, you want the glove to last a while I am assuming. You don't want the leather to get too stretched, let alone the damage it would do to your poor lacing.
625871
isn't liquid suppose to get in the thing?\n\nit sounds like an air dry outside will help if anything will
702905
well the gloves should stay sticky on there own for awhile. but when they start gettin patchy, i usually spit on them a lot. but water works also. spit is more handy tho.
235505
Unfortunately if the leather has cracked it is near impossible to restore.  Rain and excess moisture and then heat from the sun will ruin any leather jacket.\n\nThe best care remedy is to use leather oil and stain to coat the leather jacket again.  It won't make it look new, but it will improves it.  Find a shoe polish tint that matches the jacket (or now they might even have special leather jacket stains).  Then rub in an oil like the one they use for baseball gloves.  Let is air dry in a shady area.  When finished use a damp rag to wash off excess stain and oil. Then re oil again.  After the 2nd coating the jacket should be in better condition.
719549
Lightly oil your bat with a thin film of raw linseed oil.  Then lay it on a flat surface with the face of the bat pointing upwards for a few hours.  Take a hard cricket ball and place it in a sock.  Make sure the sock material is not heavily ribbed or else it will impart the pattern in the face.  Strike the bat with many blows paying particular attention to the edges and bottom of the bat.  Repeat this procedure many times over.\n\nAT the end of the season lightly oil your bat again and store face up.\n\nEnjoy and remember too much oil will damage your bat.
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Warm it.  Warm the boot too.  It softens the leather and renders it more absorbent, and a warmer polish absorbs into the leather more thoroughly as well.\n\nDon't get it hot, just warm so that it is workable, and don't bake the boot but get it warm enough to be pliable and receptive to the polish.
258622
Leather oil, put a baseball in it and shape it how you want it, put rubber bands around it and throw it in the freezer overnight.
577981
Take a nice long hot bath. Soak your hand in the water. Skin shrivels when it's soaking in hot water. The soaking alone should help it come off easily. In case it still hangs up on the knuckle a little liquid soap will allow it to slide off the rest of the way.\n\nIf that doesn't work, visit your doctor to have the ring cut off. You can get it repaired and re-sized at a jeweler later.
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I have washed my gloves in the machine but inside out and make sure they are really dry before using then again.\n\nIf your not to sure, wash them by hand, make sure you rinse them well and only use a very small amount of washingpowder.
758042
If your gloves are leaving a smell on your hands that lasts past the shower you take after your game, you're not airing your gloves out enough.\n\nI play four to five times a week, and coach two days on top of that ---  I'm in my gloves sweating the whole time, and once I shower my hands don't smell like hockey anymore.  (Nor does the rest of me, thank god.)\n\nIf there's a lingering smell after you wash your hands, there's got to be a heck of a lot of bacteria in your gloves making smells, and that can't be healthy.  It's a good way to get fungus (there's a hand version of athlete's foot called tinea manus), so make sure you get your gloves out of your bag and somewhere where they'll dry between games.\n\nI dry my gear out religiously, taking it out of my bag and hanging it up (in the winter when it's damp I hang it up down by the furnace  in the basement just to speed up the drying process -- in the summer I toss it all out in the sun now and then...  sunlight's better than febreeze or anything else for removing bacteria and odors) and haven't had a problem.\n\nIf your gloves are that potent right now, I'd get them cleaned, then start fresh (so to speak) with airing them every time.  Or just buy some new gloves and keep up good habits with them.\n\n**\n\nOh, and the two most common things people recommend for removing smells from your hands or other surfaces are lemon juice and vinegar.  I'll bet you it was vinegar.
543623
neatsfoot oil and a baseball in pocket wrapped with a band ...make sure you use the oil generuosly to work into the leather. The oil not only conditions it but breaks it in so you can catch the ball instead of it popping out.
458281
take a lite adhesive. run it over ur hands and when it dries remove it. this shud work
885750
It depends.  My cleats are plastic on the outside (or something like plastic) so I just took a wet paper towel and some lysol or something to them.  If they smell really bad then just spray them with fabreeze or some Dr. Scholls spray.  If they are cloth on the outside you can still use a wet paper towel but it can be a real pain.  It should only take about 15 minutes though.   Keep them out of the washing machine.
1038227
You can just use windex or even water and tissue or a damp cloth.\n\nIts okay, you wont damage it.
369673
I clean mine with laundry detergent and a brush using the garden hose. After calling a game, spray it with Fabreeze, but let it dry out before you put it in yor bag.