After 20+ years of playing and coaching baseball I have tried many different methods of breaking in a glove. In my opinion, the steps listed below will speed up this seemingly forever process. Please keep in mind this process should be used on high quality gloves made of 100% leather, like Barraza Gloves, as this process may shorten the life of synthetic materials.

1. Fill up your sink or a bucket and completely submerge glove in room temperature water for approximately 3-5 minutes.
2. Put a baseball deep in the pocket and try to stretch glove around a baseball forming a pocket.
3. Tie up glove tightly, forming the pocket around the ball using a belt or string fingers facing up, to help the water drain.
4. Keep tied up and let glove dry naturally out in the sun or in the attic a couple days or in any warm part of the house. Do not place on any HOT surface.
5. Untie and throw in the clothes dryer (even if still wet) on hot for 15-20 minutes. This will help "beat up the leather."
6. Remove from dryer and start working it in. The more time you spend bending down on the fingers and forming the pocket the better the end result. Once completely broken in I prefer an occasional application of glove oil, like Rawlings Glovolium. Just remember to add in small amounts ...you don't want your glove to be soaked and/or heavy!)

Remember, the cow that your glove came from certainly spent most of its life outdoors, so a little water shouldn't affect your leather. However I would not use this method with any of those chemically pre-oiled gloves that you sometimes see. They are chemically broken in and, in my opinion, will not last as long and tend to turn into rag dolls way before their time.