Nokona
Assembled in
Nocona, Texas
33.78° N, 97.73° W
Sports and Outdoors
- Headquarters
- Nocona, TX
- Manufacturing
- Nocona, TX
- Categories
- sports-and-outdoors
Nokona has handcrafted baseball and softball gloves in Nocona, Texas since 1934 and is the last major glove maker to have never moved production offshore. Each glove is cut, stamped, stitched, laced and embroidered in Texas. Because some lines are built from imported specialty leathers — Australian kangaroo, Japanese calfskin — and Nokona marks its goods “Made N USA” rather than an unqualified “Made in USA,” the record sits at the assembled tier, with the domestic-leather Steerhide and Bison lines the closest to fully American.
The record
Ball gloves are handcrafted by American workers in Nocona, Texas
“Since 1934, in Nocona, Texas, premium ball gloves have been handcrafted by skilled American workers, using the world's highest quality leathers.”
nokona.comRetrieved
Gloves are cut, stitched and laced in Texas but use some imported specialty leathers
“This includes gloves and belts made in our American facilities using specialty leathers such as American Steerhide, American Bison, Kangaroo from Australia and Japanese CalfSKN.”
nokona.comRetrieved
The Society for American Baseball Research records Nokona as the last glove manufacturer left in the United States, working in Nocona, Texas
“The other American glove companies like Wilson and Rawlings began offshoring their operations in 1960, leaving Nokona now the last manufacturer of gloves still in the United States.”
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Domain record
nokona.com was registered on .It dates the domain, not the business: a maker that moved to a new address reads young here, and an old domain says nothing about who holds it now.
RDAP registry record · checked 19 Sep 2026
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