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  • A baseball glove is basically an addition

  • to your hand that allows you to trap the ball

  • between the thumb and the index finger

  • in such a fashion that you can

  • make a great catch and throw it back.

  • From the time I started playing baseball

  • I've been in love with the game.

  • Something very basic about it.

  • It's not about fads or this or that,

  • it's about a rich heritage that goes back

  • you know, over a hundred years.

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  • I'm Rob Storey.

  • I'm the Executive Vice President of Nokona Ball Gloves.

  • We make world-class ball gloves here in Nokona, Texas.

  • To build a glove you're going to have to have

  • the right leather.

  • We use a number of different leathers,

  • such as kangaroo, cowhide, buffalo, even some Cayman.

  • When that comes in to us, we begin the grading process.

  • We're looking for any blemishes, scars, defects.

  • With a classic walnut glove, we're going to be using

  • a leather that we call Walnut Crunch.

  • It's very durable, but very easy to break in.

  • A lot of players like that because they can go out

  • and play catch immediately.

  • We introduced some cutting dies, or what we call clickers.

  • Basically big cookie cutters.

  • We gotta take that leather and cut it into about

  • 25 different pieces.

  • We have somewhere about 2000 cutting dies.

  • While the leather's still flat,

  • do what we call hot-stamping.

  • We'll take other pieces to the embroidery station.

  • Where we have fixed and single-head machines

  • that can pump out four to 500 gloves a day.

  • Putting all that information somewhere on the leather

  • so that the customer is educated.

  • Once that's done, then it's time to transition

  • over to the stitching department.

  • Two or three of the pieces go a different direction

  • where they're made into the web or the pocket of the glove.

  • Another station will start the interior lining.

  • This is the part that the hand touches.

  • Not only the palm lining, but the mac fingers,

  • as well as three center pads inside.

  • Start to welt those parts together while we're

  • adding the third piece of material

  • in between the seams, setting the spine to the backs

  • of the fingers of the glove.

  • Really at that point, you begin

  • to see the glove come together.

  • The fingers are finally married to the front.

  • And it becomes a shell.

  • Once you've closed the glove, it's inside-out.

  • Literally pushed the leather down,

  • and pushed the inside back to the outside.

  • Then it's time to start shaping the glove,

  • and we do that through a series of forms

  • that look like giant hands.

  • They're heated to about 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Pulled around and shaped with a mallet

  • so that all the welting and all the seams

  • are just perfectly aligned.

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  • Living in a small town like Nokona, Texas

  • is a big part of who I am.

  • I think Nokona Ball Gloves

  • wouldn't necessarily work somewhere else.

  • It's about the local people and the pride.

  • The town itself is very much a part of the final product.

  • I'm a fourth-generation family member in the company

  • and in the 1960's, most baseball glove manufacturers

  • decided to take their manufacturive offshore.

  • My grandfather, Bob Storey, didn't want to do that.

  • He wanted to give employment to the locals.

  • He made a decision at that point that was

  • very crucial to the long-term history

  • of our company, and that was that

  • we were going to be American-made.

  • Something that's been a part of Americana

  • for decades and decades but

  • they can't find anywhere else now in the United States.

  • There are up to 40 different labor operations

  • that go into making a glove.

  • And so it's not just stickin'

  • a piece of leather in a machine.

  • More and more people are starting to realize

  • just because you can make it cheaply somewhere else

  • that doesn't make it good.

  • You've gotta put the very best craftsmanship into the glove.

  • We think our history of 80-plus years of doing that,

  • we've learned how to do it.

  • Leather's one of the most

  • interesting materials known to man.

  • The feel as it firmly wraps around your hand,

  • the subtle pop as the ball hits it,

  • these characteristic are things that make

  • crafting, and with this medium, one of the most

  • enjoyable parts of my job.

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  • After the forming marry the outside shell

  • with the inside lining.

  • We're going to be gluing some parts together.

  • So in the inside liner,

  • take long strips of tensile-strength laces,

  • and start filling 120 holes in the glove.

  • Cosmoline holds the palm to the inside of the liner.

  • It's a very heavy form of petroleum jelly.

  • It looks a lot like peanut butter.

  • It's a great adhesive.

  • We can open up a glove 10 years later

  • and that stuff's still sticky inside.

  • First the top fingers,

  • then the bottom perimeter of the glove.

  • And finally the web, which usually kind of gives

  • the glove it's character, into one finalize piece.

  • We will physically beat the palm of the glove.

  • That softens the glove, shapes the leather,

  • take out all the wrinkles, and makes it just right.

  • We take hot petroleum jelly and lanolin

  • and we spray that onto the glove

  • so that we have a very uniform layer of oil

  • that starts to moisturize the leather.

  • Just like skin, if left to its own design,

  • will start to dry out and crack and flake.

  • We bag, we tag the glove, seal it up

  • and get it ready to go out to the market.

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  • Even though it's evolved through the years,

  • it's still very very personal to each player

  • that uses the glove.

  • I think to our customers, Nokona Ball Gloves

  • represent a product that is rich in heritage,

  • at the top level of the game,

  • and hopefully lasts for decades to come.

A baseball glove is basically an addition

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