Nokona Fastpitch Series: NKF1200FP Fastpitch
Features
12.00 Inch Fastpitch Pattern
Easy Break In
Free Shipping
Basket Web
Padded Palm
Velcro Wrist Strap
Kona Tanned Soft Leather
Youth Model
Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 7 Customer Reviews
ProudPitchersDad
Pros: i would not use this but i bought it for my son(12) and he loves it. He likes it better than his rawlings gold glove series glove.
Cons: a little while to break in...I break in his gloves.
Anonymous
Pros: this glove is awesome. it is also nice looking.
Cons: NONE
DB
Pros: Price point, rep, feels pretty durable.
Cons: I bought this for my 10 year old daughter-she's 4'3" and rather small and the fingers were a tight fit-not really a con, just giving you an expectation. Thought the laces could be a little more heavy duty-felt a bit flimsy-we'll see how it work for winter practice
David Paez
Pros: Awesome Game Ready Glove! Good, Comfortable, and Proffesional
Cons: Will Need To REstring in a year
Madtowner
Pros: 11-year-old daughter likes the glove very much- much nicer than most of the gloves the girls use. Broke in very easily. Good size for middle infielders. Every time I tell her I am going to get her another glove, she objects and says she "loves" her glove.
Cons: Doesn't seem to be built to last forever- but that's the trade-off for the easy break-in.
Outlaw
Pros: Very good quality for the price.
Cons: none
Michael
Pros: I play First base and even when someone like shortstop fires the ball at me it does't hurt like other gloves, Very good padding
Cons:
Questions and Answers
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My son is 13 and he plays very competitive baseball. I'm looking for a good glove for him. but not one that is going to take a long time to break in. Do any gloves come all ready broke in? trish
Look at the last photo.....the tag says MADE IN VIETNAM !?!? I was just about to buy this, thinking all of their gloves were made in America, but apparently this one isn't? What Nokana gloves are made in the U.S and what ones are not? redsoxnation802
does this mitt go on the right hand moe
My 9 year old is looking for a new glove. He is very competitive and plays pitcher and short for travel ball team. Could you recommend a Nokona that would be a good fit. He is a big 9 year old. robert
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 | Closeout Gloves Bundle and Save |
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Glove Type | Female Fastpitch Softball |
Position | Infield Outfield |
Size | 12.00 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | Basket |
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