Batting Glove

So ESPN The Magazine had Hunter Pence (Baseball player for the Houston Astros--never heard of him before I read the article) do a two-week chronicling of his life as a major league player. I thought this pie chart was interesting:

So basically, baseball players "work" about 60 hours a week. That does not include traveling but a lot of other people who work travel as well. But seriously, they work about as much as any other hard working American. If I ever hear a professional athlete complain about how the travel is hard and it is difficult to deal with the media, I, um, I don't know what I would do but COME ON! You get paid to play a game--you hopefully love--and you get paid more money in your short career that any other average person would make in their lifetime--including interest.

My favorite part of the article was this:

"When I was a kid my dad would buy me only one batting glove, to save money. Sometimes it was a golf glove because those cost less. So now I like the feel of the bat in my right hand. On cold days I've tried wearing two gloves, but it just doesn't feel right. I'll stick with the one glove. It sure worked during these two weeks."

My dad did the same exact thing. Now as an adult I'm like, REALLY! We had to save $5 so I had to be "the kid" with only one glove. Were we really that poor or was it just my dad being like: "He doesn't need two gloves, it is not going to help either way." I know one thing is for sure, having one glove in little league definitely did not help me make it to the pros. Apparently it worked out for Hunter Pence.