Since Nokona runs the last baseball mitt factory in the U.S. — in Nocona, Texas, where Elizabeth Estrada is part of a 50-worker production team — it could stand to benefit from President ...

Nokona gloves occupy a high-end niche, catering to customers who are willing to plunk down as much as $300 for a baseball or softball glove. John Golomb, who repairs and restores old gloves in ...

If you have ever tried on a $275 Nokona buffalo-hide fast-pitch-softball catcher’s mitt, you know that there is nothing in the world that feels or looks like it. Stitched into every palm are the ...

Nokona’s equivalent-sized mitt costs $220, and its pro model runs to $500. Like many made-in America holdouts, they’re always going to be niche products. Making them isn’t going to generate ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

30 Days of Giveaways: Nokona X2-1150 Fielding Glove November 8, 2017 November 8, 2017 BA Staff Since 1934, in Nocona, Texas, premium ball gloves have been handcrafted by skilled American workers ...

Rare Vintage Baseball Catcher's Mitt Sells For $20.3K. ByDavid Seideman, Former Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Feb 16, 2015, ...

Nokona began handcrafting baseball gloves in 1934 when America’s love of the game was one of the few pleasures people found money for during the Great Depression. The Texas family business ...

Before the 1960s, catchers used heavily padded two-handed mitts. But today they favour more flexible one-handed mitts with a webbed pocket between the thumb and index finger designed to trap the ball.