Robert Megerdichian is the baseball glove whisperer
CAMBRIDGE — Robert Megerdichian’s idea of bliss is sitting in his kitchen listening to Boston Red Sox games on the radio as he refurbishes baseball gloves.
Monday’s Red Sox home opener means the high season is back for Megerdichian’s side business, which he launched six years ago after a player who was angry over a call threw a glove into the dirt during one of his adult son’s baseball games.
“That’s not taking care of a glove very well,” Megerdichian told his son, Greg, a longtime player for the Cambridge Spinners in the Boston Men’s Baseball League.
Gloves sometimes break, Greg responded, and when they do, players make repairs or buy a new one.
That answer didn’t sit well with Megerdichian, 64, a self-proclaimed “throwback,” who drives a 1986 Volvo, uses a flip phone, and has lived in the same two-family home on Chilton Street in Cambridge his entire life.
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