What is Wilson SuperSkin?

It’s no secret that Wilson's SuperSkin technology has impacted the way players look at baseball gloves and softball gloves. Providing significant glove benefits like a lighter weight, better moisture resistance, and a faster break-in period, it’s not hard to see why SuperSkin A2000s and SuperSkin A2Ks have grown in popularity in recent years.

With SuperSkin being one of the best advancements in glove technology over the past 30 years, we felt that it would be valuable to put together a blog post that provides the history of the material, it's benefits and customer reviews on it as well!

How Was Wilson SuperSkin Invented?

SuperSkin was invented by Wilson's Glove Guru, Shigeaki Aso, with his superior knowledge of gloves plus some ingenuity. In 1997, one of the game's greatest sluggers, Barry Bonds, was actually seeking to make a change to his outfield glove. Barry was wanting something lighter in weight that wouldn't sacrifice durability or performance.

By that point, Aso had developed Wilson gloves for scores of professional players, but he had not yet tackled a problem like this one. He set out to find a solution that would meet Bonds' preferences, but little did he know that the answer was close by.

According to Wilson’s website:
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“In Chicago at Wilson LABS, sitting a mere 10 feet from Aso’s workstation on his co-worker’s desk was a material being tested on basketballs.

‘I noticed some material on his desk that had been used for the Evolution Basketball,’ explains Aso. ‘The Evolution Basketball was designed to wick away moisture to give players a better grip. And it was designed to be used on concrete, so I knew the material was durable. So I said ‘why not?’’
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Aso borrowed a few sheets of material and went to work adding this "basketball" material to the backing of Wilson gloves. The first prototypes made with the Evolution Basketball material were well-received, but they weren’t quite up to Aso’s standards of perfection. ‘The glove was still a bit heavy and it was picking up dirt,’ he says. ‘So we had to keep working at it.’”

After a long trial period, filled with many failed attempts, Wilson and Aso developed what is now known as SuperSkin. And when Aso delivered the glove to Bonds, the slugger was elated and accepted it happily.

What Aso had created was truly ground breaking. When compared to regular leather backed gloves, these Wilsons with the SuperSkin backing were...

• Stronger
• Lighter In Weight
• More Moisture Repellant
• Easier To Break In

Since the late 1990s, hundreds of MLB players and thousands more amateur baseball and softball players have gone on to use a Wilson SuperSkin backed glove in a game.

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