Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like most people, Frank Eberhart soon hopes to see an economic turnaround. But Eberhart, owner of Marvin Shoe Service, isn't hoping for business to pick up. He'd actually like to get caught up, or get ...

CLEVELAND — Gordon King knows a lot about baseball, and maybe even more about baseball gloves. “I always ask people if they've heard of the land of the misfit toys from Rudolph the Red Nosed,” said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...