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A glove affair: Tigers' Mercer just can't quit his 10-year-old Rawlings mitt

Tigers' 2019 preview with Chris McCosky, Bob Wojnowski and Tony Paul The Detroit News

Lakeland, Fla. – It stinks. Literally, it smells horrible. And it looks worse. Discolored, battered, worn through and stitched up. If you found it laying on the street, you probably wouldn’t even want to touch it. It’s that nasty.

And yet, Jordy Mercer has been in love with it going on 10 years now.

“I still remember getting it,” he said.