Nokona X2 Buckaroo 11.75" Fastpitch Softball Glove: X2-V1175I
Glove Profile
Nokona X2 Buckaroo 11.75" Fastpitch Softball Glove: X2-V1175I
Features
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11.75 Inch Pattern
Infielder Glove
I-Web
Constructed With A Combination Of Top Grain Steer Hide & Kangaroo Leathers
Conventional Open Back
Adjustable Velcro Wrist Strap For A Personalized Fit
Kangaroo Leather - Pound For Pound One Of The Toughest Leathers In The World, Yet Very Lightweight
Short Break In Period
Stampede Leather - Full Grain, Pre-Oiled Steer Hide
The Perfect Combination Of Top Quality & High Performance
Weight: Approximately 565 g
Proudly Made In The USA Since 1934 (Nocona, TX)
Description
Introducing the X2 Buckaroo, Nokona's highest performing, ready-for-play, position-specific series. For the game's most skilled players, the X2 is for those who are looking for the perfect combination of high performance and quality, as well as the quickest break-in period on the market for an elite softball glove. Made with distinct combinations of Nokona's proprietary Stampede Steer Hide and Kangaroo Leather, this model is for defensive excellence. Each glove is ready to go right off the shelf without the need for steaming and with an ideal level of feel, flexibility, and rigidity right where you need it. Nokona has built a reputation for providing the highest quality gloves made with top grade leathers that are made right here in the USA. Since 1934, Nokona has been making their product in Nocona, Texas with 100% USA labor where the people have dedicated their lives to providing the highest quality ball glove for players that demand excellence. This is their legacy. Nokona: America's Pastime, American Made.
This Nokona X2 Buckaroo Fastpitch Softball Glove (X2-V1175I) features an 11.75-inch pattern, an I-web, and an adjustable velcro wrist strap for a personalized fit every time. Calling all infielders! Raise your defensive presence and buy your Nokona softball glove today with free shipping at JustBallGloves. We're here for you from click to catch!
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
emma
Pros: the ball stays in the glove very easy to scoop ground balls!!!!
Cons: non
Awesome glove to bad you can’t still get Keith Parent
Pros: Love the glove easy to break in
Cons: I have called and emailed and can't get them anymore. Make more. Easy to break in did young Girls.
Questions and Answers
Have a question about the Nokona X2 Buckaroo 11.75" Fastpitch Softball Glove: X2-V1175I? Ask our team of experts and they will respond within 24 hours.
What is the weight of this glove? Darrel
Would this be good for men's softball at 2nd base? I don't have gigantic hands so I think it would fit. I am also looking at the X21175H. I purchased a Shoeless Joe X1175HWR from you that I am thinking of using but the pocket seems a little small. Any ideas? Robbie
My daughter is a high school sophomore, second base and on a U16 travel team. Do you recommend this glove for her? Bobby
1: Is this available in a slow pitch model? 2: Is it available in longer length Darrel King
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
Age Range | 10-12 13-15 High School-Adult |
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Color | Brown |
Feel | Soft |
Glove Type | Female Fastpitch Softball |
Position | Infield Second Base Short Stop Third Base |
Series | X2 |
Size | 11.75 |
Sub Type | Fielders |
Vendor | Nokona |
Web Type | I-Web |
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