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Old Fri Jul 22, 2005, 11:09am
IRISHMAFIA IRISHMAFIA is offline
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Originally posted by BretMan
Interesting about you "growing up in a leather factory", Mike, since my biggest hobby- next to playing, coaching and umpiring- is collecting vintage and antique baseball gloves.

From what "bkbjones" wrote, and knowing a little bit about the glovemaking process, I took it that he meant "dies" instead of "dyes".

Re-read his sentence with "die" inserted and it makes perfect sense in relation to a baseball glove's size.
Yes, it does. Dies = template, pattern cutter, etc.
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