How The Last American-Made Baseball Glove Manufacturer Uses Its Home-Field Advantage
manufacturing.net | August 15, 2017
Nokona has been manufacturing baseball gloves for so long, the company plans to open a museum in its new facility. Right now in its current space, $5 will buy you a tour to see the “last American ball glove” in production. If the company wanted to decrease production costs, it could pack up and move its manufacturing operations to Asia, where most of the other baseball glove makers have gone. But the company’s executives have refused. And so, for 83 years, the company has maintained a manufacturing space in the small town of Nocona, Texas.