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 ...
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 ...
About 50 years ago, a customer walked into Fran Fleet’s custom-sandal-making shop holding a baseball glove and asked if Fleet could repair it. She confidently said she could, even though she had no ...
The crack of the bat, the smell of popcorn from the concession stand and the pop of a baseball caught in a favorite glove are sure signs of spring. But when that “pop” is not as resounding as it used ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In late winter 1964, an advertisement in Boy's Life magazine for the one-and-only Wilson Sporting Goods A2000 baseball glove beckoned me and kids like me in love with baseball. The ad practically ...
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