Nokona SuperSoft 11.25" Youth Baseball Glove: XFT-200-TN
Features
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11.25 (+/- 0.25) Inch Glove Size
Classic American Workmanship
I-Web
Colorway: Tan / Black
Conventional Open Back
Game Ready Feel With Minimal Break In Required
Index Finger Pad Provides Superior Protection
Individually Cut, Stamped, Stitched, Laced, & Embroidered
Manufactured With Pride In The USA
Recommended For Younger Infielders & Outfielders
Top Grain Steer Hide Supplies An Amazingly Soft Feel
Weighs Approximately 490g
Description
Nokona youth baseball gloves have been handcrafted with pride by talented and skilled American workers in Nocona, Texas since 1934. The SuperSoft series is available in select patterns for the serious travel ball player who wants an amazingly soft feel and quality craftsmanship. Built with premium top-grain steer hide sourced from American ranchers, the Nokona SuperSoft youth gloves are strong, flexible, and game ready right out of the box. Each model is built like no other and retains its structure and shape over a much longer period of time in comparison to other baseball gloves. With each design being individually cut, stamped, stitched, laced, and embroidered, these baseball gloves instill a sense of pride and confidence on the field. Nokona: America's Pastime, American Made!
This Nokona SuperSoft Youth Baseball Glove (XFT-200-TN) features a small 11.25-inch size, a pro-style I-web, and an index finger pad for premium protection on defense. Be a patriot and pick up one of these Nokona youth baseball gloves 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!
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My son is about to turn 10 years old and is playing travel ball. (1) On the Nokona website, they recommend this glove for 14 year old players. Do you agree? How do the finger stalls compare to a Bradley glove? (3) Would you recommend this model or a Nokona X2-200-POP? Brett
Would this glove fit a 9 yr old boy 10 in June? Brian Reed
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 | Soft |
Glove Type | Baseball Youth |
Position | Infield Second Base Short Stop Outfield Third Base |
Size | 11.25 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | I-Web |
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