Nokona Buckaroo Black Softball Series: BS1350CBLK
Features
13.50 Inch Pattern
Adjustable Velcro Wrist Strap
Closed Back
Combination of Kangaroo and Cowhide Leathers
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Reinforced Basket Web
Made in the U.S.A.
Softball Pattern
Some Break-In Required
Top-Grain, Hand-Selected Leathers
Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 3 Customer Reviews
Scott
Pros: So far, it is a wonderful glove. Feels terrific, and it is obviously the best quality glove I have touched in years, perhaps ever! The pocket is large and is already starting to break in with a very comfortable "ball location". You will need to work this glove quite a bit more than any other gloves on the rack today....but that just makes it even better.
Cons: If you consider 'break-in time' time to be a 'con', I would have to list it here...however I dont consider it a con.
Jeff
Pros: Awesome glove!! break-in time is minimal. beauttiful glove!
Cons: None
Don
Pros: Just bought this glove a couple of weeks ago... It seems to be of great quality. Extremely stiff out of the box but, this is what you want when you buy a quality glove. I played a 5 game tourney this weekend and had a chance to break in in before each game. With each series of throws, I could feel it starting to form more and more. At this point, I would suggest this glove. I can tell that after the break in period, this will be an outstanding glove for a long time!
Cons: I wish they offered it in ALL brown... but it`s still a great looking glove. And.. if you are not a fan of velcro at the wrist, don`t let that hender you. The velcro wrist strap is not made with some Mickey Mouse junk, it is HEAVY DUTY and should last a very long time.
Questions and Answers
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Do you have this one in the 14 inch? Nokona Buckaroo Black BS-1400C-BLK Softball Glove Jeff
Do you have the Nokona Buckaroo Black Series BS1400BLK LHT Dave
Do you think the 13.5 inch is too big for the shortstop position in a mens softball league. I use a 12.5 now and feel it is much too small. Not sure if a 13 would feel big enough especially since I read Nokona run small. Adam
Do you have this glove in a size 13.00. Jimbo
I need a glove for a 8 year old girl for softball. She is small, played pitcher last year, and the glove is too small. What is the best for her? She will be on a traveling team this fall. brenda coley
do have this glove in 10 inch hunter
Do you guys plan on receiving anymore of these? Can you order them or can I order a 14 inch? Ash
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
Deals | Bundle and Save |
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Glove Type | Slow Pitch Softball Female Fastpitch Softball |
Position | All Positions |
Size | 13.50 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | Basket |
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