Since Nokona runs the last baseball mitt factory in the U.S ... investment and economic growth. An item like a catcher’s mitt offers an inside baseball look at that dynamic.

Baseball and softball gloves account for most of the ... just want that Nokona glove for the feel of it. A lot of catchers love the Nokona glove." 'They over-advertised' In retrospect, the ...

Many are made either wholly or partially from buffalo, a material no other glove maker uses. If you have ever tried on a $275 Nokona buffalo-hide fast-pitch-softball catcher’s mitt, you know ...

About 100 miles northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, past pastures of crops and cattle, sits Nocona, Texas, population 3,000, home to the Nokona baseball glove factory, one of the last baseball glove ...

catcher's equipment, football helmets and sports accessories. It now focuses solely on handcrafted baseball gloves. The Nokona name for the baseball glove was born from a trademark discrepancy ...

Jaime Wohlbach of Lower Saucon Township, a professional softball catcher, now has a catcher’s mitt bearing her signature. The Nokona Athletic Goods Co. of Nocona, Texas, has made a glove with ...

The leader and heart of a baseball or softball team is often the one crouched behind home plate. The catcher is involved in every play, and the position’s unique duties require a unique glove.

Softball gloves' webbing is also much more open, regardless of position than that of baseball counterparts. Softball catchers' mitts also differ from the other positions. The more circular or oval ...

This little brick factory isn’t supposed to be here. It should be in the Philippines, or Vietnam, maybe China. Not here, in the heart of Texas. Baseball gloves, like many other things, aren’t ...

Shaking the hands of a catcher before the invention of baseball mitts was like grabbing a handful of walnuts, Dan Gutman wrote in his fabulous history of baseball inventions, Banana Bats and Ding ...

The Nokona Ballglove Factory, located about ten miles south of the Red River in Montague County, has been manufacturing baseball gloves for ninety years. The small facility is the last domestic ...