#29: Making Ken Griffey Jr's Rawlings Glove Legendary

Beyond The Glove: A JustGloves Podcast

JustGloves

May 29, 202544 min
Baseball

#29: Making Ken Griffey Jr's Rawlings Glove Legendary

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Fresh out of college in the early 1990s, Roman Bormet joined on with Rawlings. Specifically, he was a part of their caravan that traveled the United States every baseball season starting during Spring Training and going through October. His job on the caravan: demonstrate firsthand to fans how a baseball glove is made. Roman became immersed in glove function and technology. Plus, he knew all of the nuances that came with lacing baseball gloves. But best of all was that his new employment opportunity put him face-to-face with some of Major League Baseball's biggest stars. Further, his unique task...