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 ...

Does your glove need some love? 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 mitt mechanics ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE — Robert Megerdichian’s idea of bliss is sitting in his kitchen listening to Boston Red Sox games on the radio as he refurbishes baseball gloves. Monday’s Red Sox home opener means the high ...

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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 ...

LAWRENCEVILLE - His father was a surgeon, a man whose field required delicate use of his hands and years of training. Don Bayles also works with his hands, and his patients also are often in need of ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Chris Petroff gives a lot of love to every glove that comes in. Every day, the Phoenix dad, who many call the glove doctor, gets a new shipment of baseball gloves from around the ...

Former high school ballplayer Tomohiro Yonezawaya who went into the sporting goods supply business after his playing days knew how expensive new baseball gloves are, which posed an obstacle for many ...

CAMBRIDGE — Robert Megerdichian’s idea of bliss is sitting in his kitchen listening to Boston Red Sox games on the radio as he refurbishes baseball gloves. Monday’s Red Sox home opener means the high ...