I would never steam or bake a glove.

I have broken in several and can offer this advice.

First condition it.

If you have access to a pitching machine. Load it up and play catch with it a couple of hours. This is a great start.

There is a guy I came across several years ago who breaks in gloves with Wilson sporting good. I am not sure if he is still with Wilson. His name is "Aso". His method is tried and true.

Aso - The glove Guru

Thanks for all the insights and tips/tricks so far!

It's getting better little by little, his regular season starts in 2 weeks and my son has been playing a lot of catch with his Pops and me and I've used a bit of Rawlings Glovolium glove oil/conditioner with lanolin on it which is really working wonders. It really does work to just play catch and use it to break it in! By the time his season gets going and games start, he should be pretty good here. I'm watching him at practice now and the instances of the ball popping out of his glove have gone way down from when he first got the glove.

I also have one of these now and beat the glove pocket with it a few minutes each night and it's really helping to soften up that pocket and form it:

A little off the OP.

Coming home from Massachusetts last Thursday the U. Mass baseball team was on the flight to Charlotte.

All of their equipment was put on as luggage except their gloves.

Each of those kids had at least one glove that they carried on board like it was an infant. I’m guessing that was their “gamer”.