The Tornado Palm glove is also an elusive mitt for collectors. April 1, 2013— -- My affection for a very old baseball glove I've owned since I was a kid was tinged with greed this spring and I ...

Summertime mornings I’d whip a rubber ball against our schoolyard brick wall, inventing bottom-of-the-ninth-inning cliff-hangers. In each one, my slingshot throw from centerfield beat any New York ...

Baseball's opening day is right around the corner and one company will be paying close attention. Nokona is the last remaining glove maker that still produces the gloves in the U.S. for MLB players.

There’s a lot that goes into making Nokona baseball gloves stand out in the crowded sporting goods marketplace, but the thing that makes them most unique is the little tag on each one that says “Made ...

Major League baseball players pay plenty of attention to their baseball gloves, except for pitchers. Position players have unique ways of breaking a glove in and taking care of it during the season.

With spring almost here, flea markets and yard sales beckon bargain hunters. Even if you’re a casual shopper at such venues, I believe that with some effort and luck a new guide for sale on eBay will ...

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 ...

To round out our series on the the design of baseball equipment, let’s take a brief look at the baseball glove. Unlike the baseball bat or the baseball itself, the glove was not initially a part of ...

Plenty of sporting goods stores are eager to sell you a brand new baseball glove. Finding someone you trust to repair that worn, beloved – or sometimes lucky – mitt is a lot more challenging. That’s ...

Engineers at the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., an iconic U.S. manufacturer of sports equipment founded in 1887, were tasked with coming up with an upgraded version of the company’s baseball glove to ...

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 — ...

When it comes to playing ball, a glove is a glove — right? Yes, but in the same sense that you can technically play softball wearing basketball sneakers but cleats will make an athlete more effective ...