Nokona Classic Walnut Series: WB-1200
Features
12.00 Inch Pattern
Classic Walnut Crunch Leather - Stability, Flexibility, and Durability
Conventional Open Back
Basket Web
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One (1) Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Infield / Pitcher / Utility Model
Weight: Approx. 695 g
Some Break-In Required
Description
The Nokona Classic Walnut Softball Series is constructed from premium Walnut Crunch Leather. It is one of the toughest, and longest lasting gloves currently on the market. The Classic Walnut Softball Series offers a great fit and an excellent feel. Nokona also offers radius welting for unmatched durability on their Classic Walnut Softball Series gloves. Nokona gives this glove a contemporary styling to give it the best look possible, because if you feel great, you play great! This glove comes in a 12.00 inch model and is an ideal infield glove for players making big moves on the field. Nokona has once again out done themselves by creating this top of the line Classic Walnut Softball Series. The comfort is almost unmatched to its competition, and this model will last you through many competitive seasons to come. Nokona has always had the reputation of producing top of the line, durable and dependable gloves and the Classic Walnut Softball Series is no different. This glove was hand made in the USA in Nocona, Texas. Nokona: American Made for American Played! Free Shipping.
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 7 Customer Reviews
TC
Pros: Great pocket lots of leather and American made,can't beat it.
Cons: A little stiff but some sunlight and Nakona glove conditioner and playing catch loosens it up.Not really a con as you have to do that with almost any new glove.
Flipper
Pros: Seems like great quality leather...maybe a great glove in the future after it's totally broken-in.
Cons: Been using Nakona glove conditioner and using the glove for practice only over the last 3 months . . still not broke-in, not much padding in palm area, heavier than my Mizuno, pocket not as deep as Mizuno and having a difficult time getting my thumb comfortable in the glove. .
Anonymous
Pros: Excellent, excellent quality in materials and construction. Every time I take it from my bag, I can't help but smile. This glove will be around long after me. It's taken a bit of work to break in, but that's the fun of getting a new glove. I use this as an infielder in slowpitch softball and an adult baseball league, as well as to coach at the high school and Little League levels.
Cons: This model is not offered with an H-Web.
One of the best Matt from CA player
Pros: I use mine as an infielder for my slowpitch team and I can honestly say that this has been my favorite glove. I've used Wilson, Rawlings, and Mizuno as well and this Nokona can hang with the very best of them.
Cons: Takes a minute to get broken in just right, but that's what you get when you buy a high end glove.
Jt wood baseball
Pros: Great leather strong and sturdy good for 3b better than mizuno I bought it and I used it in a game 12 hours later broke in great
Cons: None
CDS
Pros: Great weight and feel, once oiled up and broke-in, this glove holds shape and form very well. Liked the Nokona so well, we bought a second one this year. Holds up better than Mizuno classic than we first bought.
Cons: As all new gloves, break-in period.
Gteat Glove Grasshoppa player
Pros: I have had this glove since I was 7. Its held up well, very well broken in and is over all just a great glove. I'm 14 now and i use it as a left fielder.
Cons: Its pretty stiff if it gets cold, but give it some sun and some catches and its good to go.
Questions and Answers
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You list this as a softball glove but the Nokona website lists it as a baseball glove. Which is it? Greg
How does this model fit? geeter
Can you use this glove for youth baseball? mj
Is this glove made of the same leather as the 2016 Nokona Classic Walnut Softball Series (WS1250C)? Todd
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
Glove Type | Slow Pitch Softball Softball Baseball |
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Position | Pitcher Second Base Short Stop Third Base Infield Outfield |
Size | 12.00 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | Basket Fully Closed |
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