Tricks of the Trade

[BigUmp56]

I finally decided to hang up my old +POS plate shoes and try something new. I went with the Spot Built U56 high tops this time. Yesterday I worked a double header on a newly renovated diamond that had this extremely dry and nasty redish clay, worse than what I've ever seen before. For a minute I thought I was in Alabama, but I digress. As I had just received the new shoes Friday I didn't have a chance to put more than one thin coat of polish on them yet. At the end of the games they were just a mess. I tried to brush them and then wipe them with a damp rag, but this stuff seems to have permeated every pore in the leather and they still looked like hell. So, I'm looking for suggestions on how to clean them up and do a better job of preparing them before I have to call a game on this crap again.


Tim.