Nokona American Kip 12.75" Baseball Glove: A-1275B
Features
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12.75 Inch Pattern
AmericanKIP - American Steerhide With Characteristics Similar To European & Japanese Kip Leather
Colorway: Black
Light-weight, Highly Structured
Outfield Glove
H-Web
One (1) Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Proudly Made In The USA
Traditional Open Back With Finger Pad
Weight: Approximately 620g
Description
Nokona American Kip 12.75" Baseball Glove: A-1275B
Make those tough defensive plays with this Nokona American Kip baseball glove. The thick padded palm protects your hand and reduces the sting from line drives, and coordinating laces makes the glove look good both on the field and off.
Glove Benefits
Track the ball into the glove during quick plays with the H-web design on this Nokona American Kip baseball glove. Lightweight leather helps keep the player comfortable throughout extra innings, and the highly constructed material makes the glove easy to break in for a custom fit.
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.
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 2 Customer Reviews
Bad Buy Albert Perez Parent
Pros: Adults - can be used to work with your daughters. Slow pitch softball use.
Cons: Web is sewn sloppy. Leather is thin with little or no lining. No lacing at center of finger slots. Lacing is poor in general. This glove is not worth $400. Don't buy this glove!
Awesome glove! JJ Coach
Pros: I wanted a glove that could perform double duty for softball and baseball. Let me tell you the 12.75" Nokona is perfect for this. 13"+ gloves feel like too much glove for me. I can remain agile with this glove and shag effortlessly. A highly versatile glove. Leather is firm yet super comfortable and I can tell it will break in great. And most importantly, it's freakin gorgeous! ;) Disclosure: I was skeptical at first bc this glove was only available as used, listed "excellent/like new" condition at less than half the price of a new Nokona. I'm glad I went for it because this glove is immaculate. Thanks JustGloves!
Cons: None.
Questions and Answers
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Is this glove good for slow pitch softball infield or outfield? Carmine Priore
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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.
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