Former United States poet laureate Donald Hall wrote that baseball is "fathers and sons playing catch." Of course, to play catch with fathers (and mothers), the sons (and daughters) must first have baseball gloves. And those first gloves can last a long time, if not always on the players' hands, then certainly in their memories.
Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen coach Garvin Alston is 44 years old but still vividly remembers the first baseball glove his father gave to him at age 7. It was a used, brown Rawlings glove with Dave Winfield's signature on the leather that his father found while working as a janitor for the White Plains Housing Authority in New York.