I was expecting something else.
Recently, I asked Nolan Arenado about baseball gloves in general, as well as his baseball gloves. I arrived to the Rockies clubhouse with a pretty good foundation of questions. Baseball gloves are interesting. They are the only pieces of baseball equipment with any permanence. As a material object, there is something about a baseball glove that elevates them above anonymous uniforms, endless batting gloves, and fragile bats. Not only that, but it’s an intimate object. It literally molds to a player’s body. Permanence makes a bond between object and actor.