Nokona Alpha 12.5" Fastpitch Softball Glove: S-V1250C
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12.5 Inch Pattern
Adjustable Wrist Strap For Personalized Fit
Colorway: Tan | Brown
Combination Of AmericanKip & SuperSoft Leathers
Fully Closed Basket Web
Game Ready Yet Durable - Essentially No Break-In Needed
Proudly Made In The USA
SuperSoft Back Offers Lighter-Weight, Softer Feel While AmericanKip Palm Provides Game After Game Durability
Traditional Open Back With Finger Pad
Pitcher, Outfield Glove
Weight: Approximately 640g
One (1) Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Description
Nokona Alpha 12.5" Fastpitch Softball Glove: S-V1250C
Running on to the ballfield with your new Nokona fastpitch softball glove can give you the confidence to play like a champion. Known for its quality construction and materials, this glove now includes even more leather upgrades to give it a softer feel and without a long break-in period. You may find this glove is game-ready right out of the package.
Glove Benefits
The combination of two proprietary leather types gives this glove a supple feel and also provides strength for durability. SuperSoft steerhide leather is preserved over time using natural processes that help give this glove its flexibility and velvety feel. AmericanKip leather is made using many of the same characteristics as quality Japanese leather, giving the glove both strength and durability. Its 12.5-inch pocket is the ideal size for fastpitch softball players playing either the infield or outfield. Its closed-web pocket is great for pitchers wanting to hide the softball, and also ideal for fielders who need to get the ball out of the pocket faster when transferring from fielding to throwing.
Warranty
Nokona extends a twelve (12) month manufacturer’s warranty on all their gloves. If you buy a Nokona from JustGloves and experience an issue that may have come from defective workmanship or material, be sure and let the JustGloves Glove Experts know. The Glove Experts are trained in product and warranty knowledge. They will be happy to assist with providing directions for a warranty return to Nokona.
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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
Age Range | 13-15 High School-Adult |
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Color | Brown |
Feel | Soft |
Glove Type | Female Fastpitch Softball |
Position | Outfield Pitcher Infield Second Base Short Stop Third Base |
Series | Alpha |
Size | 12.50 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | Basket Fully Closed |
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