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 ...

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 ...

The Easton Professional Collection Hybrid design, inspired by the likes of Kevin Pillar, Alberto Mondesi and Ramon Laureano, offer position-specific patterns in a Hybrid construction that includes USA ...

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.

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 ...

The first baseball glove you owned can excite memories as sweet as your first kiss. Or more. “A glove is like a wife,” Darrel Evans, the Red Sox outfielder eight-time Gold Glove winner once declared. ...

The history of the baseball glove dates back 150 years, with Charlie Waitt credited as the first player to consistently wear one. Gloves have evolved significantly over time, with advancements in ...

At his workbench, Jimmy Lonetti cuts open a worn baseball glove while keeping an eye on an old highlight reel. Snip. Snip. Snip. Bits of frayed lacing pile up on the table like a tangle of worms. In ...

The gloves come with history. They show up at Chris Petroff’s home in suburban Phoenix, a few deliveries per day, UPS, FedEx and regular mail. He will learn the biography of each one. Petroff can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...