If you’re already thinking about what to get me for Christmas, I suggest you start saving your pennies.  Before December 25, you are going to need $348.  For this:

That would be a baseball glove made of Coach leather.  It comes in a variety of colors, but naturally I want the blue one.  If you want to go all-out, get me the bat, wallet, baseball paperweight and leather-wrapped radio, which as a package will run you a mere $1160.

I first read about this in a Bloomberg article, which says that Coach is seeking to expand its revenue by making a push to bring in more money from men’s products.  The idea is not that lots of men are going to by baseball gloves, but that the gloves will say, “HEY GUYS WE MAKE STUFF FOR YOU TOO!”

I appreciate that strategy, but it’s going to take a lot more than appealing to my love of baseball to get me to spend $498 on a jacket.  I’m slightly more frugal than that.

And come to think of it, I already have a baseball glove that can handle any ball thrown my way:

I’ve had this glove since I believe roughly age 14.  Note the one set of strings I left untied.  There’s a matching set on the opposite side next to the thumb.  The purpose, of course, was that between pitches I could twist the glove back and forth, letting the strings slap against the rest of the glove like the little drum in Karate Kid.

I wanted to include my first baseball glove in this post, but sadly a quick search in my parents’ basement the other day turned up nothing.  I’m sure it’s down there though, so some day we will be reunited and I can share all of its glory.

And since this is about baseball, I’ll share a picture from a trip to Nationals Park earlier this week.  My mom and I went early for the game and took in batting practice.  I took my glove and a camera long, and went home with some decent shots but sadly no BP homers: