Fits Like A Glove

David L. Neugent, CFP, associate member NSMA

Sitting in the dugout with a left-handed pitcher and a Shortstop during a college baseball game, I watched the lefty pick up the shortstop’s glove, try it on and pound his fist into the pocket like we all have done a thousand times.

At the time, the Wilson A2000 was fairly new to the market and not many college players had one. The lefty pitcher remarked to the middle infielder that it seemed to be a good glove. That set the Shortstop onto a long description of how he saved up his money from summer jobs, how his dad took him to the best sporting goods store in Columbia, SC to buy the glove, how he went to great effort to break the glove in and what Major League infielders used the same glove.

At the end of the diatribe, the pitcher looked at the shortstop and said, “Gee, with a glove that good, how do you miss so many?”

The laughter from everybody on the bench was priceless.