When playing or practicing, you need to rotate your gloves. A damp glove is more likely to sretch or tear than one that has aired out. During really hot weather, I may rotate three gloves.
Dirt and grime. plus accumulated body salt, can make the glove hard and stiff. This means the gloves have no tackiness and are likely to crack and split. You can wash leather gloves with saddle soap and a sponge - this gets out the gunk - and the soap restores some of the leather's moisture.
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FlyKixz23 
Hizrl or the Bionic glove hands down! ...
The Bionic gloves have reinforced palms and fingers, which promise to improve durability and anchor the club better. I will be rotating two of them this next season, to see how long they last. The Bionics are highly similar to the left-handed handball gloves I used in the late 1980s. I was living down in Oklahoma - hot! - and two gloves (with a couple of saddle soapings) lasted me the entire summer.
I went the other way last January and got four lightweight brand X leather gloves at $5 each. A pair of them would last less than a month in a two-glove rotation (probably three rounds + four medium practice sessions).