You will always remember your first baseball glove; the scent of the oils in the leather, how long it took you to break it in, even the sound that the ball made when it hit the glove for the first time.

These memories all came back to Ellen Hart, the visionary behind the concept of sportsaccessories.com. When her daughter, Veronica lost her 30 year old Rawlings baseball glove, a great idea happened.

“I gave my Rawlings baseball glove to my daughter when she was in junior high”, explains Ellen. “At the end of the season she accidentally came home with a different glove. I instantly felt very sad but I didn’t understand why. So I began to ask my friends if they still had their first glove and what it meant to them. I consistently received stories of Sunday afternoons playing catch with dad or friends and family picnic baseball games. I realized that I was not the only one with these memories. Everyone remembered their first baseball glove; the stories behind them had great meaning. I began thinking that it would be a wonderful idea if we could create everyday products that helped bring back the memories attached to our baseball gloves. That is how sportsaccessories.com was born.”

For the last 130 years Rawlings Sporting Goods has been the leader in designing and manufacturing the highest quality of baseball gloves for professionals and amateurs. The leather for a baseball glove has higher quality requirements than any other leather products made. Remember, it has to withstand a fast ball at over 100 mph. Using only the finest leather from the same tanneries that have supplied Rawlings since the early 1900’s, sportsaccessories.com has created a unique line of consumer products of luggage, travel goods and accessories. The scars and patina that you see on each product is what makes them rich and unique. Just like your old glove, our products appear softer and comfortably weathered over time.

Now you can bring the memories of your first glove with you to work.
Finally… it’s fun to be a grownup!