"...if Brooks saddles conform, then why do they offer a dozen models. God forbid that you spend years breaking in the wrong one.
The same goes for baseball gloves. You can take a raw one and spend years getting it to feel right, in the mean-time you've got balls bouncing out...same goes for brooks."
They do conform, and they offer several models to suit different riding styles and levels of activity. Last time I checked, Specialized and other brands do to. Brooks saddles do not take hundreds of hours to break-in. Maybe up in the dozens, but that's not very much riding. Some high performance models, like the Team Pro, can take longer.
The analogy to baseball gloves is a poor one. In the case of a ball glove, the idea is to soften, crimp, bend, and generally break down the leather, which is very much thinner than a saddle blank. Usually this is done with gobs of mink oil and other unguents that could destroy a Brooks saddle. It has been done.
And, my balls have never bounced out of a Brooks... so there.