One man's trash...

I'm currently teaching softball to high school girls. Where I'm working there is this shed that houses the "sports equipment" When I was preparing to each I had to do a lot of sorting of the equipment that was in there. I had different sizes of softballs, bats, and two piles of gloves. The ones that were in one piece enough to be used and then the one's that were child sized or I could see the stiching was broken. The other day I found this string on the sidewalk that probably came out of a hoodie or a jacket when I walking down to class and just like my grandfather I picked it up knowing I would have a use for that string (immediately knowing that I would use it to repair one of the gloves) So today I take my string down to the sports shed and I just grab the first glove I see that isn't child sized and needs some stich repair and head out with the intention of repairing it. Well it only took 2 seconds for me to realize that I had just grabbed a Nokona baseball glove. For those of you who don't know the signifigance of that, Nokona is an american baseball equipment company known for their baseball gloves that are made out of premium leather, sometimes buffalo hide and other exotic hides as well. They are worn by major leaguers like David Ortiz, Vladamir Guerraro , and Miguel Tejada. Some of their gloves retail for $300, most around $175-$225. I'm going to look into getting it repaired. Despite being in a shed for who knows how long and not being used at all, the leather is relatively soft and the glove still has good shape. Anyway, you know what they say about one man's trash.... sometimes it ends up actaully being a treasure and maybe you were a tad bit mistaken about what you thought was worthless and you were donating away for free.