off topic bat question

[BretMan]

Thanks for the help, guys.

That's the same approach I took years ago when I first started collecting gloves. I tried different cleaners and conditioners, different scrubbing tools and different lacing methods. I used cheap gloves, with little or no collectible value, picked up for a few bucks at garage sales to experiment.

Nowadays, it is nothing for me to tear apart a rare old glove, strip all the laces, rip into the interior padding, clean it all up and put it back together again good as new.

My bat collection is dwarfed by my glove collection. I do have a copy of the "Vintage Baseball Bat Price Guide". It has a lot of great info about bats, how to date them and identify them by their logos and which ones are the hardest to find.

Thanks again for the help!