Nokona Alpha Select 30" Youth Catcher's Mitt: S-120
Features
30.00 Inch Mitt Size
Catcher's Glove
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65% USA Labor
Colorway: Tan / Brown
Constructed Out Of 100% American Bison Leather
Conventional Open Back
Game Ready Feel From Day One
Lightweight Pattern With Virtually No Break-In Period
One (1) Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Recommended For 10U Travel Baseball Players
Two-Piece Closed Web
Weighs Approximately 580g
Youth Fit Provides Smaller Hand Opening With Shorter Finger Stalls
Description
This Nokona Alpha Youth Catcher's Mitt (S-120C) features a small 30.00-inch size, a fully closed web, and a conventional open back that delivers a classic-style look. Be alpha and buy one of these Nokona youth catcher's mitts today with free shipping and our 100 Day Love Your Glove Guarantee. Don't forget, with our 24/7 customer service, we'll be here for you from click to catch!
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 1 Customer Review
Well Built Catchers Mitt Fred Lowman Other
Pros: Good quality glove for our son who plays Little League. Top quality leather and American made. While it is a little stiff he loves working on his gloves to break them in - just like his grandfather did when he was a kid!!
Cons: NOTHING!!!
Questions and Answers
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How can this catcher's mitt work for girls softball? Won't the pocket be to small for my granddaughter? I went to Nokona's web site and found no info. Jim
Looking for a good glove for a youth catcher who plays up. 5 ft tall 10 yr old. Son loves to catch but last glove did not last a season or even break in well. Jeff Bucher
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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