Nokona Pro Line Series: PL1250H (AMGFBSXH) First Base Mitt
Features
12.50 Inch Pattern
Buckle Strap
Closed Back with Shearling
Cupped Pocket
First Base Pattern
Free Shipping
H-Web
Slightly Stiffer Feel to Retain Shape
Made in the U.S.A.
Buckskin Cowhide and Sandstone Leather
Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 10 Customer Reviews
Pros: great glove, already broken in when bought.another great product from a great texas company
Cons:
Pros: it was great
Cons: none
Pros: Very flexible and worked in from the start. No break in time is required. Very lightweight and comfortable. Leather is nicely pre-oiled.
Cons: Strings in pocket rip very easily. Played freshman baseball for high school and the glove lasted for 3 months of practices. Disappointed with the durability of the leather. Not much protection in palm. Lots of stingers.
Pros: fantastic glove. i'm just absolutely blown away by it. i bought a rawlings heart of the hide series glove and i just absolutely hated it. this glove one million times better. if you are looking for a quality glove, look no farther than this great texas company glove.
Cons: a little stiff
Pros: Nice color, easy to break in. Very flexible glove.
Cons: Leather cracks easily. After just a little use, it becomes quite flimsy. Very little padding in all areas of the glove. I would not recommend this glove.
Pros: The one pro is we live in the USA and have the freedom of choice to NOT BUY THIS GLOVE!!!!
Cons: This glove is TERRIBLE!!! I have 3 Nokonas that are asolutely wonderful! One of them is the 12.75 Pro-Line and it's fantastic. I was expecting the same of this glove... BUT.... This glove is made of paper-thin, cheap leather-like substance. It feels cheap, like a Fisher-Price toy mitt only worse. The rounded part is actually a piece of cardboard or plastic sandwich inside the "leather." Also, the "leather" is so cheap and thin they had to ink stamp the logos instead of brand it like their other gloves! A branding iron would of gone right through it. Plus, the ink stamp is sloppy! Also, the laces are bad and loose! I hope with all my heart this glove was made in Bangladesh or something and the company is "Zokona" but they accidentally inked the "Z" sideways! In summary, I can't say enough bad things about this mitt. REPENT NOKONA!!!!!!!
Pros: Flexible, nice clors.
Cons: Not durable at all. My son is 12 and bought this in February and the glove is already bad. No padding at all! the back of the glove is too weak. very dissapointed.
Pros: Flexible and requireed not even three weeks of break in time. Had a great feel to the glove
Cons: By about the second month of high school and travel baseball, the lining in the pocket started to tear. The strings in the webbing ripped clean through the leather. I received a ball and it popped right through the glove at the hole in the H-Web. I was very disappointed in this glove. They did have a Warranty by Nokona, but I wasn't going to bother with this model again.
Pros: Durable. Usefull both as a softball or a baseball mitt.
Cons: None: I've taken a look at the other reviews, and some of the negative comments are not consistent with my experience with this model. Those negative comments are, however, consistent with not breaking in the glove properly. The seams will break if it is soaked in water or baked in an oven. Break in the glove properly, and it will last your lifetime and well past it.
Pros: nice glove
Cons: lacks padding. i have a proline 12" and is great. thought this would be buit the same but after playing catch with it you notice there is no padding whatsoever. you would think this glove being $189 you would get more for your money.
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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
Deals | Bundle and Save |
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Glove Type | Baseball |
Position | First Base |
Size | 12.50 |
Sub Type | First Base |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | H-Web |
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