Nokona Buckaroo Black Fastpitch Series Glove: BFF-1300C-BLK
Features
13.00 Inch Pattern
Ristankor Adjustable Velcro Wrist Strap Provides a Secure Fit
Closed Back
Top-Grade Steerhide Leather
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Reinforced Closed Web
Made in the USA - Since 1934 (Nocona, TX)
Fastpitch Softball Model
Some Break-In Required
Pitcher / Outfield Model
One (1) Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Walnut Crunch Leather - Top-Grain Steerhide Provides Classic Feel and Lasting Durability
Weight: Approx. 680 g
Description
In a place called Nocona, Texas, premium ball gloves have been designed and handcrafted since 1934. For generations, the people of this small town have dedicated their lives to provide the best baseball product product, made right here in America, so that you can wear it with great pride and confidence. The new Buckaroo Black Series features patterns made specifically for fastpitch softball players. These gloves are made from top grade steerhide leather. All leathers utilized by Nokona are top-grain and hand-selected to meet Nokona's rigorous standards. The Buckaroo Black Series is about halfway game-ready, but will require some break-in, as all high quality gloves do. With a closed back design and adjustable wrist strap, the Buckaroo Black Series will provide the control necessary to dominate the softball field for years to come. Nokona: America's Pastime. American Made. Free Shipping!
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 5 Customer Reviews
Pros: soft leather, nice deep pocket. seems really well made.
Cons: wasn't quite as game ready as I thought it would be, but break in didn't take long. Just don't expect to take out of box and to a game right away.
Pros: By far the best glove I have ever bought. I play competitive slo-pitch and I am characterized as a utility player. So for me, is glove is very versatile. I purchased the recommended NLTP leather conditioner, it certainly was a labour of love as the application took about an hour, but the end result was a more pliable softer glove. It definitely was not game ready out of the box(although you could, in a pinch). I love the deep pocket, the great 'snap' sound when you catch the ball and the fit. It was as though it was made for me; particularly since I hold it with my pinky and ring finger in same end slot and one in ech of the other slots, leaving my wrist slightly exposed(game of inches my coach told me). It's been a month now and I see this glove lasting me for the remainder of my softball life:). What a great, quality product!!
Cons: Absolutely nothing!!
Pros: I bought the BF1300CBLK AND WC1250C, returned the buckaroo because the hand area was to small, the WC1250C is one tough piece of leather, after three weeks of practice it's still not broke in, but I can tell it's going to be the best of the best.
Cons: Being left handed there are not as many gloves to pick from.
Pros: Bought it for my wife to play slow pitch, its light weight and breaks in very fast.
Cons: Very stiff on arrival
Pros: This isn't the first Nokona that we've purchased and I can promise that it won't be the last. I bought this glove for my 11 yr old daughter and she was squeamish about replacing her 11" Nokona, but she fell in love with the new one immediately. The quality in and out of this glove is unparallel, and if you take your game serious youll need a serious glove. Nokona also offers a service that'll restore your glove later on down the road so that you can always pass it down to the next generation. The other brands don't offer services like that. Just another reason that I've stuck with this brand since my first Nokona in 90'
Cons: None, dont believe the critics that say this glove will break in and become floppy, it'll just turn into the perfect glove tha'll work everytime.
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About the Brand
Joe Phillips writes about his visit to Nokona. It was like sitting in at the plantation party in Gone with the Wind or maybe gazing from the grandstand at the “Field of Dreams” while the Black Sox players tried to work out their idled muscle kinks. And, I was gently reminded by the lines in that movie while I dug into a delicious plate of North Texas barbecue: “threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what once was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins. . . You talk a good dream.” And here I was. . . graciously invited into this magical and charming “Field of Glove-Making Dreams” in former Comanche Indian land at Nocona, Texas. It was a warm August evening, basked in a golden harvest moon, while friends and the Nokona family paid its kindly southern regards to two of their own and two of America’s finest but relatively obscure glove makers, Bobby Storey and Elvin Ray “Ab” Lemons. You see, the pair had just completed fifty years of time-honored employment with Nocona Athletic Goods, the last of the all-American made ball glove company's. The occasion brought echoes of past successes and human contentment, but in Nocona today you still experience much the same American texture of yesterday and perhaps a glimpse into tomorrow as well.
The two stately gentlemen were being honored in a way that could have taken place in the same manner when they first reported for full-time work at Nokona, in 1952, or back even earlier, in 1933 when the company started making sports equipment. During a brief and informal presentation at the celebration, Nokona’s new sales manager called the two glove makers “Legends - because that’s what their ball gloves stood for, American know-how and pride taken in a best-made product.”
A man of few words but a marveled craftsman who could literally conjure a sows ear into a playable baseball mitt, Mr. Lemons got up and fondly recalled the several men he worked with through his half-century and of the training that had been passed along to him from his old bosses.
His counter part and just as talented, Bobby Storey, had filled in at just about every job at Nokona. Bobby, the son of the sporting goods founder, R.E. “Bob” Storey had most recently served as president and now chairman of the board of Nokona. Though past retirement age like Mr. Lemons, he’s now serving at one of his favorite roles, that of ball glove designer.
At a time for employment in this country when five years is considered a long tenure with the same company, Ab and Bobby are not even the first to complete a half-century journey with Nocona Athletics. The now deceased Jewell Brickey, hit that milestone in 1993, after joining the company during World War II. That’s the kind of devotion that employees forge into this glove-making outfit. A devoted and sustained tenure here is not rare. Last year the company advertising, displayed along with Storey and Lemons, three other employees who had garnered 40 years with Nokona, Warren Clary, Bud Meekins, and Melvin Weedin.“
I don’t have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball”, wrote W.P. Kinsella. And the most constant of ball glove makers has been Nokona, and the men and women there who keep alive the tradition of American craftsmanship of ball glove making. The spirit of glove-making is still alive and well in Nocona, Texas.
Glove Properties
Color | Black Brown |
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Deals | Closeout Gloves Bundle and Save |
Feel | Stiff |
Glove Type | Female Fastpitch Softball |
Position | Outfield |
Size | 13.00 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | Fully Closed |
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