This little brick factory isn’t supposed to be here. It should be in the Philippines, or Vietnam, maybe China. Not here, in the heart of Texas. Baseball gloves, like many other things, aren’t really ...
About 100 miles northwest of Dallas-Fort Worth, after passing untold pastures of crops and cattle, sits the town of Nocona, Texas, population 3,000. It’s home of the Nokona baseball glove factory — ...
Every aspect of a Nokona glove gets the personal touch—individually cut, stamped, stitched, laced and embroidered in the company’s Texas facility. It has been that way since 1934 and the company ...
This little brick factory isn’t supposed to be here. It should be in the Philippines, or Vietnam, maybe China. Not here, in the heart of Texas. Baseball gloves, like many other things, aren’t really ...
Every aspect of a Nokona glove gets the personal touch, individually cut, stamped, stitched, laced and embroidered in the company’s Texas facility. It has been that way since 1934 and the company hasn ...
Baseball is the American past time, but there is only one brand of baseball glove that is made in America. It's not Nike, Rawlings or Wilson. It's Nokona. About 90 minutes north of Fort Worth, in ...
We went to Nocona last week to check out the Nokona Ball Gloves, the last baseball glove factory in America. Check out our full story about Nokona here. But as with most stories, there were plenty of ...
Each year an estimated 4.5 million baseball gloves are sold in the U.S. Wilson and Rawlings are a few big names in the business, but Nokona is the largest American-made glove company. Nokona, based in ...
Nokona workers said they feel pride seeing their gloves worn by MLB players. For four generations, a company in tiny Nocona, Texas, has been stitching baseball gloves by hand for America's greatest ...
Since a 2006 fire destroyed the factory of Nokona, the manufacturer of American-made baseball glove has been something of a company without a home. While they continued to produce gloves in a ...
Nocona Athletic Goods Co., founded in 1926, makes about 75,000 leather baseball gloves a year under the Nokona brand. 'Its heritage and craftsmanship are in Texas,' new equity partner Jeff Beraznik ...