Breaking in a glove

What's up guys? I don't know if any of y'all play baseball/softball, but I'm on my company's team and our first practice is Wednesday. I just got back from the store and bought a new glove. This thing is freakin' tight. Does anyone have good advice as to how to break it in the fastest so that it's soft and pliable as opposed to hard and rigid? Right now I got a softball jammed in it, and it's lodged under my computer desk. Like this:




I don't expect it to be worked in by Wednesday, but I was hoping that by Monday (our first game), that it'll be nice and loose. I seem to remember when I was a kid, my dad had this oil that he'd put on the glove to soften it up... Kneadsfoot oil maybe?.. Anyways, do y'all do anything special?

Try here:

http://www.baseballgloves.com/breakingin/

What a nice colour for your carpet.

I used to always stick my glove under my mattress with a baseball in it, that seems to work.

Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsWhat a nice colour for your carpet.

Not a fan of the beige?

Well, you can go to a sporting goods store and check out some stuff called "Hot Glove" I used it on the glove that I got right before I started my Freshman season in college and it worked amazing. its some compound that you put on your glove then you put your glove in the oven for a couple minutes and all the stuff gets absorbed into the leather and it helps break your glove in a lot faster... that would be the quickest way I can think of. Also... take a softball and put in the pocket and wrap a lot of rubber bands around it to hold it in place. Try to work the leather in naturally other than that though. If you use too much oil it will get really flimsy really fast. Ahhhhh.... the good ol' days of waking up at 5 o'clock in the morning for baseball practice.... BLAH!