re: Baseball Glove Question

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Try squeezing when you make the catch

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Here is your solution.

Take some leather conditioner, lather it up, place a ball in the pocket, wrap some knee high socks tight af around the pocket, stuff in a pillowcase, and stuff it in the dryer on high for an hour. It'll form that pocket and supple that leather quick, if it's still too "slick" try rubbing dirt over the inside

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first team all district softball here

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There’s your problem.

Where is this kids dad?

Buy him a soccer glove.

Without seeing it for myself, I really think it's lacking pocket more than you realize. Does he play infield or outfield?

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He teaches our kids to shoot guns and blow shite up with firecrackers. I do the baseball.

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Rub dirt in the pocket. Keep doing that, it will dull the slick leather.
Dip spit works too.
You can also get saddle soap. That’ll make it stick.

Remember it’s all a process. Just keep working the glove. Sounds like it’s not ready, thus the ball sliding out.

I bought my 9-year-old a good leather Rawlings baseball glove a year ago. It’s well broken in now,"

Well broken in now for a kid that plays part of a year? That's hard to believe for me. Fully breaking -in takes longer for a glove in part- time use. Forget the slick surface angle. The glove isn't fully broken in yet and the pocket isn't formed well enough. Glove should never be stored without a ball in the pocket or web. Oil it up often. Use two hands on fly balls-that's a small hand in that glove and it needs help closing the glove. Good luck to your "future golden glove." Tell him to have fun.

My glove spent every night, its first few years, with a ball in the pocket and stuck between my mattresses.

Overtime, it became a much better glove.

It’s a poor craftsman who blames his tools.