If you ask any player about his or her first glove, the story is always special, and Marco Soto's story is no different.If you ask any baseball or softball player about his or her first glove, the story is always special, and Marco Soto's story is no different.
"It brings you back to when you were a child," said Soto. "Maybe during that time you were playing, you were actually maybe with your dad.""It took about three days. That was the first one he made me," recalled Soto. When Soto arrived at Long Beach Poly High School in the '90s, his teammates quickly noticed that one-of-a-kind glove.
"The kids on my team are asking me, 'How come your glove says Soto and it has your name on it?'" he said. " well, my grandfather made it.'" At Soto Gloves, you can get a glove that's 100% you. The form-fitting gloves are designed with a unique software program where you can pick the shape, style, size and color.The gloves aren't mass-produced but Soto said he and his team are currently fulfilling 1,800 custom orders."Me personally ... baseball has always been in our blood," said Soto. "I'm the one who brought it to the U.S. I'm the one who started from zero.