Since the Great Depression, Nokona has been making gloves in a small town outside Dallas with a long history of producing boots and whips for cowboys.

Every aspect of a Nokona glove gets the personal touch, individually cut, stamped, stitched, laced and embroidered in the company’s Texas facility.

For 100 years, the Nokona company has been making iconic baseball gloves in little Nocona, Texas. Despite rocky times, the future is bright.

Nokona’s equivalent-sized mitt costs $220, and its pro model runs to $500. Nokona ships about 40,000 gloves a year, a fraction of the 6.2 million sold annually in the U.S.

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.

Nolan Ryan's first glove as a kid was a Nokona, and he's been a longtime supporter of the company. He even recently sent every employee a signed baseball.

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 ...

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 ...

Nokona is the last baseball factory in America. It is located in the small town of Nocona, which is two hours north of Dallas. Employees stamp and stitch about 250 gloves a day.

About 90 minutes north of Fort Worth, in Nocona, Texas, is the only company making baseball gloves in the United States: Nokona.

Nokona had to survive a devastating factory fire in 2006. Ditto for bankruptcy a few years after that, following a failed attempt to get a bigger slice of the millions of gloves sold in the U.S ...

And he should know. He’s a fourth-generation family member working at Nokona, the only remaining ball glove manufacturer in America. Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error ...