Nokona Buffalo Combo Fastpitch Series: BCF-1250C
Features
12.50 Inch Pattern
Buffalo Leather Shell - Genuine Range Bison Leather Creates a Rugged Yet Supple Feel
Classic Walnut Leather Palm and Web
Closed Back
Fully Closed Web
Fastpitch Infield / Pitcher / Outfield Model
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Made in the USA - Since 1934 (Nocona, TX)
Robust Feel With Short Break-In Time
One (1) Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Description
This season, Nokona is bringing its classic Buffalo Combo Series to the fastpitch softball field! Nokona uses premium quality, select American Range Bison from ranches in South Dakota to construct these gloves. Buffalo leather produces the best of both worlds, soft and sturdy. Buffalo leather is renowned for its flexibility and supple feel. The shape of the glove is key, so Nokona has combined Buffalo with their signature Classic Walnut Leather. Classic Walnut Leather results from an old world tanning process that produces a uniquely patterned leather with a character and feel all its own. The combination of these two leathers creates a robust glove with a relatively short break-in period. When looking for a top-of-the-line glove, the Nokona Buffalo Combo Fastpitch Series should be on the top of the list. For over 75 years, Nokona has been producing handmade ball gloves for the elite player right here in the U.S.A. in Nocona, Texas. Don't buy a new glove every year, get a Nokona and get a glove that will last far beyond your expectations. Nokona: America's Pastime. American Made! Free Shipping!
Reviews
Average Ratings Based on 5 Customer Reviews
Pros: Very supple glove. best 12.5 Nokona makes. It's better than the black and walnut. Easy to break in really almost game ready. The palm is perfect for 12" fast pitch. Leather is OUTSTANDING. I have owned number of fast pitch gloves and this is the best!. From 12U to college this mitt just works!
Cons: Its pricey at 259.99 BUT well worth it!
Pros: I bought this glove for my 13yr old daughter so she could have a glove to last her for pretty much EVER! Just looking at the glove you can tell its a super quality product. The glove is freaking sweet! While the buffalo / walnut leather combo is helping with the break-in time there is no way this glove is close to game ready out the box. I put it on my hand and I couldn't even budge it closed. It is stiff, but I expected it would be because Nokona uses the best quality leather available. I worked the glove with a softball mallet and played catch with my daughter for the past 2 weeks and my daughter can now catch the ball and get the glove to close enough so the ball wont pop out. I figure another couple weeks and this thing will be game ready. To sum it all up, you cant go wrong with this glove. Its really nice, but expect to have some break-in time. Also, Nokona is the only company I know of that makes ball gloves in America. Support American Products!!
Cons: None. Zippo, Zilch.
Pros: My daughter has only had this glove for a week so I really have not seen any pros.
Cons: This glove has been difficult to break-in. I have used the Nokona cream on it 4 times and worked on this glove a lot. For the money spent on this glove it should be somewhat pre broken-in.
Pros: I'm a 5'2" woman with small hands playing in the outfield and found this glove to fit me almost perfectly. There's room for bigger hands for sure but I can already feel the glove forming to my hand. I've had this glove a couple of weeks now (not playing every day) and the break-in period is going well and fairly quickly. The leather combination of walnut and buffalo makes for a supple and soft feeling glove. It's still rigid where it needs to be though. I'm also getting a good snap in the pocket playing so far which feels awesome. I tried multiple fastpitch, baseball and softball gloves and this glove is just outstanding. I was looking for a glove to last a long time and I'm certain this will last many years.
Cons: I just wish there was a fast pitch glove for Nokona in all black. That's all!
Pros: Awesome, glove, keeps it shape and pocket beautifully. Doesn't break down like less expensive brands, my 16 year old daughter has used it for two years of high school and competitive, and it looks like new, will use till college where she will have to use the brand the team gives her.
Cons: None, the best for the money.
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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
Color | Brown |
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Feel | Stiff |
Glove Type | Female Fastpitch Softball |
Position | Outfield |
Size | 12.50 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | Fully Closed |
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