Baseball Glove Ornament

The most original gifts for baseball players never need breaking in, like this — a hand-blown glass glove, webbing laced by hand, made and finished in-house and sold directly from this page. My mother-in-law Prudence, keeper of a cedar chest full of childhood gloves, examined ours carefully before adding it to that leather archive. It is the only glass entry there.

A secret santa suits it well, aimed at the baseball person whose desk holds a stray ball. Prudence maintains that glove people identify each other by how they handle a wrapped box, cradling it like a catch. The right recipient does exactly that. Give it to the colleague who talks about the game. The webbing tells them someone cared.

You should buy it for the player, past or present, and for anyone whose childhood happened on a field. Prudence gives it to relatives whose gloves she still keeps, a glass companion to the leather ones in her chest. It reads as continuity rather than nostalgia alone. Give it to your household's ballplayer, the one who still owns their first mitt. They will recognize the wear, because it is drawn from a real one.

It is made as real blown glass, formed as one mitt and painted entirely by hand, from the laced webbing to the deliberately darkened pocket. Prudence traced the full lacing with one finger, carefully checking the over-and-under sequence against the many gloves she already knows by heart. It followed the correct lacing order exactly, over and under as a rethreaded glove runs. The pocket wears in right.

Gift-scaled and branch-friendly — a mitt that settles into a cupped palm, reads clearly from across a room, and hangs without ever pulling its branch down. It rides a standard hook and keeps the shaded pocket facing outward so the careful lacing stays fully on show. Prudence judged it true to a real fielder's glove. The webbing runs correctly.

Clean and care for it simply: wrap it in soft tissue, seat it in a rigid box, and store it where the temperature stays even year-round. Prudence keeps hers in the cedar chest with the leather gloves, though she notes the glass one needs no oil. It emerges each December looking exactly as broken-in as the day it arrived. The paint asks for nothing between seasons but a dark, steady place.

What sports ornaments pair well with the Baseball Glove? Hang the Tennis Ball ornament beside it and the branch sets the diamond's own tool against the court's smallest piece of equipment. Prudence arranges her sporting pieces by how faithfully each one records its use, the glove leading them. She revisits the order often.

It ships in protective packaging built for hand-blown glass, not a gift box, so leave one wrapping step between the doorbell and the recipient. Prudence rewraps hers in brown paper the exact color of well-worn glove leather, a match she considers only appropriate to the subject. The packaging protects the mitt fully. The story is yours.