Plenty of sporting goods stores are eager to sell you a brand new baseball glove. Finding someone you trust to repair that worn, beloved – or sometimes lucky – mitt is a lot more challenging. That’s ...
Does your glove need some love? Are the laces broken? The fingers floppy? The leather cracked from leaving it outside in the rain? You need to call the Lonettis. Jim and Dom Lonetti are mitt mechanics ...
MINNEAPOLIS --Baseball fans are rejoicing. After a long winter, Major League Baseball is back and the Twins will open the season in Kansas City. But here at home, a Minneapolis man is making sure ...
Above the pennants, bobbleheads, and signed balls showcasing decades worth of Major League Baseball history, a framed Rawlings advertisement from the 1950s hangs inside D&J Glove Repair in Minneapolis ...
For baseball and softball players, their gloves are everything to them, so much so that some players won’t play unless they have their special glove. So, when they get old and worn, that’s the time to ...
CAMBRIDGE — Robert Megerdichian’s idea of bliss is sitting in his kitchen listening to Boston Red Sox games on the radio as he refurbishes baseball gloves. Monday’s Red Sox home opener means the high ...
At his workbench, Jimmy Lonetti cuts open a worn baseball glove while keeping an eye on an old highlight reel. Snip. Snip. Snip. Bits of frayed lacing pile up on the table like a tangle of worms. In ...