Nokona Bloodline Black/Sandstone Series: BL1175HSAND
Features
11.75 Inch Pattern
Black Prime Bloodline Leather on Back
Break-In Required
Conventional Open Back
H-Web
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Made in the U.S.A.
Infield Model
Sandstone Leather on Palm and Web
Description
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 1 Customer Review
Eric
Pros: MADE IN AMERICA, and that means something. This is a pro glove. These are NOT easy to break-in, nor SHOULD they be. Pro quality gloves take some work to get in game condition, and this is no exception. The craftsmanship is top notch. This glove is light, rugged, great to play with, and a glove to be proud of. I'm 34, and replaced a bloodline I am just now retiring after college and a decade of wood-bat play. You can actually ship this glove to Nokona and have the craftspeople who built it work on it, and that translates directly to pride of ownership. Nokona employs hard-working people that really care about their product and their legacy. I wanted to but this locally, so I called the company directly to find a local dealer. They knew several on a first name basis. "Go over here and see this guy," they said. Try THAT with Rawlings. To be fair, I have a few Rawlings pro-preferred gloves, and I'm a huge fan of those products, though I feel the bloodlines will last longer.
Cons: None.
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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
Glove Type | Baseball |
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Position | Second Base Short Stop Third Base Infield |
Size | 11.75 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | H-Web |
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