Smart advice Marshall Will, in general the the baseball glove has needs that differ greatly from the leather we use playing cowboy. Im sure I over done it, as a kid, but we used to soak them in oil before wrapping them around a baseball and placing them under the mattress at night. Its also a good bet that the ball nor the mattress benefitted much either. No wonder my mother was always complining that I used too much Brill Cream.