baseball players are flashing leather all over the field. In recent decades, much sports equipment has been made overseas but one company refuses to export its process, making leather gloves 100% ...

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Situated in Tokyo’s Ota and Setagaya wards, the Re-Birth renovation studio’s outlets collect secondhand gloves from individuals and baseball teams. The inside leather and laces of the gloves ...

The glove arrived from Texas ... quintessential sound of summer — that empowering “pop!” when baseball and leather collide. There’s no other sound like it in the world.

For almost anyone who played catch with a dad or mom, or took the field on a baseball or softball diamond, nothing evokes those memories like their old glove. Even decades later. It’s an old friend.