Nokona Walnut Series: WB3200C Catcher's Mitt
Features
32.00 Inch Catcher's Mitt
Break-In Required
Open Back
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Two-Piece Closed Web
Made in the U.S.A.
Stiffer and Sturdier Feel Than Classic Walnut Leather
Walnut HHH Leather
Pro Style Toe
Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 7 Customer Reviews
Hardyboyjk
Pros: Good Stiff construction. Took a little over a week to break in, and it has been feeling better and better everyday since.
Cons: none, none, none!!!
TN Brewers Fam
Pros: Just as you would expect. Great glove. Took no time to get playable. In about a month feels like I've had it for years. Had that pop...you expect to hear from a real glove. Do yourself a favor and get one of these whether you need it or not.
Cons: none
Big Mack 33
Pros: Breaks in so well. This glove feels like it's part of me ! Highly recommended.
Cons: I haven't found any in over a year of owning this mitt.
Anonymous
Pros: This is the best glove I have ever worn. Previously I have used nike gloves. This is the best glove out of my three. Performance wise it is amazing, I have no complains after using it every game for a year and a half.
Cons: not having any cons is a con, right?
Catcher
Pros: Excellent. Breaks in smoothly. Paid $230.00. Excellent pop an crackle
Cons: Takes time to break in. DO NO USE GLOVE OIL OR STEAM.
Baseball Glove Dude
Pros: Stiff construction
Cons: The leather cannot withstand a 80 mph fastball. The leather started to rip in the pocket
D
Pros: Great glove. Sturdy construction. About a month to mold to your hand perfectly. Great pop even with slow pitchers.
Cons: Maybe a little more palm padding
Questions and Answers
Have a question about the Nokona Walnut Series: WB3200C Catcher's Mitt? Ask our team of experts and they will respond within 24 hours.
Is a 32 inch mitt too small for high school ball? Steve
Do they make Nokona Catchers mitts in sizes larger than 32 inches? Scotty
Does having a smaller catchers mitt make it harder to snag outside pitches while keeping the mitt in the zone? Brock
Does Nokona not offer any catchers mitts larger than 32"? My son has this mitt but he's now in high school and looking for at least a 33" mitt. Love Nokona, but it looks like we need to look elsewhere. Dan
Would this mitt be a good fit for an 11 year old catcher or do you have a better recommendation? Richard
Will this glove last me through all of high school, if I have a large hand when I'm 13? Drake
I'm looking for a glove for my 12 year old son. Which will be the better mitt, Nokona Walnut Series Catcher's Mitt or American Legend Catcher's Mitt? Eddie
This mitt will be for my 11 year old son. How does it compare in material, build and wear quality with the Wilson A2000 WTA? Should he be able to control either equally? Any real difference/advantage in size for either? Thanks polchal
What size catcher's mitt would you recommend for a 16 year old? Wendy
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.
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