That's What Nocona Glove Company has been doing for more than 80 years and in this book the 80 pages detailed the history of America's Last Remaining Baseball Glove Company. Chocked full of history of the company born in old Comanche Territory, Northeast Texas that today still cranks out the best baseball gloves money can buy and adored by thousands of loyal customers. A list of Nokona's endorsed gloves is included in this epic book. A must for the Nocona glove fan. This great book is loaded with Nocona memories. Quotes and stories from Bobby Bragan. How a colorful sports distributor "Doc" Hughes helped the company move from billfold manufacturing to join the ranks of sporting goods manufacturers in the 1930s. World War II brought a government baseball glove contract and soon servicemen from the far east to Europe and continental USA began to wear Nocona gloves, including one that was captured by the Germans.
There's a complete list of Nocona glove endorsers including one by Joe Jackson and to an endorsement from Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan talking about his first Nokona glove.
Plenty of Brooklyn Dodger players signed up with Nocona while playing in Fort Worth, including Carl Erskine, Cal Abrams, Billy Loes, Bob Milliken, Hall of Famer Dick Williams, and Roy Face who went from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh where he became an all-star relief pitcher.
When American glove companies began to desert this country to produce their gloves in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, Nocona Owner Bob Storey vowed he'd never import a glove, but it was tough sledding for the company as cheap oriental labor undercut the Nokona prices. But, the company survived and today is the last major producer of baseball gloves in America.
Read this great, unique entire great story in this book on American knowhow and success!
***BONUS**** Get an extra color page of Nolan Ryan's Tribute To the Nokona Gloves!!!!