The ultimate podcast for baseball and softball fans, brought to you by the Glove Experts at JustGloves. Tune in as we dive deep on the art of glove craftsmanship, share the secrets to catching greatness on the diamond and understand the people who have dedicated a portion of their lives to gloves!
#34: He Made a Baseball Glove from an Army Backpack
Marcus Gurule (better known as "G") took the common army backpack material, Cordura, and used it to craft baseball gloves for Emery Glove Company. G is an Army veteran who served the United States for two decades. It had to be destiny that he was able to join up with Emery right at the time that they were working with the military-inspired Cordura material to improve their baseball glove offerings and differentiate themselves in the market!
Our Beyond the Glove conversation took us back to G's roots in California and New Mexico where his mother taught him to sew and where he observed his father taking care of the local baseball league's worn-down equipment. Fast forward many years and multiple tours of duty in the Global War on Terrorism, he was urged to take up a hobby as his career in the Army was winding down. The hobby he chose drew inspiration from the examples demonstrated by both his parents: using his sewing skill to help repair damaged baseball gloves.
He spent a few years behind a sewing machine fixing baseball gloves late at night while he was completing his military career during the days. Those late nights allowed him to build his own personal glove repair brand (known as Guts and Glory Trade). And once his time in the Army was officially complete, he had a full body of (glove)work to display and was able to market himself as a dynamic designer to glove brands. After plenty of grind, Emery decided to bring him on board in 2022 and the company has flourished since G joined the team.
You'll be inspired when you hear the story of G's journey through the military, to running his own glove repair brand and finally to crafting gloves for a rapidly-rising glove company!
25 Sept 2025
33: Baseball Radar Guns & Training with Technology
Since the 1970s, baseball radar guns have fascinated players coaches and most-of-all fans. The first time a baseball's speed was tracked with a radar gun, it was plugged into a cigarette lighter in a police car. In today's baseball, tracking pitch and bat exit speeds has become so advanced that the most casual fan can not only own the technology, but they can hold it in their pocket and track it on their smart phone!The Beyond the Glove podcast had the pleasure of welcoming on Jarrod Nichols of Tag Sports to deliver a baseball interest piece to our followers. Tag Sports operates out of the Kansas City metropolitan area and they've specialized in streamlining the integration of speed radar tracking to smartphones. If a baseball or softball player has the Tag Sports Radar, they can easily sync it to their phone to record progress and even capture video to go along with the data they collect from their throws (or swings). In addition to discussing the history of radar tracking in baseball and the capabilities of their radar, Jarrod of Tag Sports also joined Ben in a discussion of where he feels sports radar tracking could be moving in the future!Please join us in this discussion of baseball interest that we feel baseball glove enthusiasts will appreciate!Check out @tagsportsai on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tagsportsai/ Check out the Tag Sports website: https://tagsports.ai/ Questions or Suggestions?E-mail: experts@justgloves.comToll Free Telephone: 1-866-321-GLOV (4568)We hope that you enjoy Beyond The Glove! If you have any questions, concerns, or requests, please get in touch with our Glove Experts. They're available for a call or text at 866-321-4568, email at experts@justgloves.com, or you can live chat on our website. Don't forget, we're JustGloves, and we're here for you from Click-to-Catch!
28 Aug 2025
#32: He Got A Shohei Ohtani Baseball Glove! | Episode #32 - Justin Yee of 818 Gloves
In January of 2023, New Balance announced that they had signed baseball's biggest star, Shohei Ohtani, to their brand. However, the most noteworthy news for the glove community came weeks later when New Balance announced that they would also be releasing an Ohtani baseball glove to the public that summer!
A year passed and no glove was released. But in the spring of 2024, New Balance finally set a date for a limited release of the Shohei Ohtani glove that would take place at a New Balance store in Brentwood, CA. Only 50 gloves would be available for purchase at the event!
Our guest, Justin Yee, was one of the 50 individuals who was permitted to the event to purchase the glove on that spring day of 2024! In this 32nd episode of the Beyond the Glove podcast, Justin details the experience of entering for a ticket to the event and purchasing + opening the Shohei Ohtani glove for the first time!
Justin's expertise goes far beyond his possession of the Ohtani New Balance glove. For over 5 years, Justin has ran the popular Instagram account: 818 Gloves. From this account, he has shown the glove market's new love for multi-colored gloves while also demonstrating the beauty of the gloves from 20-30 years ago that set the stage for the color craze that has come upon the glove market in the last half decade!
Tune in if you wish to learn about Shohei's glove and stick around till the end to hear about some of Justin's favorite picks from his collection of nearly 50 baseball gloves!
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