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| | | |  | Revamped roster gets boost from ASU's Cowles Posted 6/11/2008 - 9:08 AM : Viewed 9160 times.
From Source : www.dailyherald.com |
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When the 2008 Chicago Bandits take the field at Judson University for their home opener tonight, the National Pro Fastpitch team will have a decidedly new look for its fans in Elgin.
The revamped roster includes 11 newcomers, the most recent addition being infielder Mindy Cowles, who just capped off her college career at Arizona State University with a NCAA World Series title.
Named the 2008 PAC-10 Defensive Player of the Year, Cowles broke the all-time record for home runs at ASU en route to a .337 season batting average which included 11 doubles, and a team-high 11 home runs.
Back in blue and orange are infielders are former college standouts Laura Harms (Bradley), Vicky Galindo (California-Berkeley), Jaime Clark (Washington), Kristie Fox (Arizona) and Stacy May (Iowa).
Harms, an infield/utility player who hit .223 in 2007 with 23 hits, made Bandits history in 2005 as the first player to cross the plate for the program.
Galindo was named to the NPF all-star team in 200......
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| | | | | Changes afoot on the diamond in Nashua Posted 10/22/2008 - 8:59 PM : Viewed 13890 times.
From Source : www.unionleader.com |
| | | Say goodbye to the Nashua Pride and hello to the American Defenders of New Hampshire. Same league, different team.
Brand-new concept.
The city of Nashua yesterday signed a three-year contract with a heavy-hitting ownership group led by three Nokona Athletic Goods executives and former Red Sox ...... | | | Changes afoot on the diamond in Nashua | | | | | |  Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Gloves made in city meant for diamonds Posted 10/15/2008 - 1:07 AM : Viewed 17031 times.
From Source : www.telegram.com |
| | | On the top floor of a manufacturing building on Fremont Street, workers have quietly started turning out leather gloves that go perfectly with diamonds.
Baseball and softball diamonds, that is.
GoodGlove USA LLC, a joint venture of local and Texas-rooted manufacturers, is producing Nokona gl...... | | | Gloves made in city meant for diamonds | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Ownership group eyes military tie-in Posted 9/16/2008 - 12:58 AM : Viewed 12184 times.
From Source : www.nashuatelegraph.com |
| | | Stars and Stripes and professional baseball. That’s what prospective new owners of the Nashua Pride hope to eventually purchase and sell to the community.
Will it work for a franchise that has lost an estimated half a million dollars in each of the last two seasons?
Nokona Athletic Goods Co. t...... | | | Ownership group eyes military tie-in | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Even a fire couldn't stop small Texas mitt makerPosted 7/26/2008 - 5:30 PM : Viewed 7044 times.
From Source : www.usatoday.com |
| | | With his business in flames and the future of his small Texas hometown suddenly uncertain, fourth-generation factory owner Rob Storey met with his employees and made some promises.
He would keep alive the only company that still mass produces baseball mitts in the United States. And nobody would ...... | | | Even a fire couldn't stop small Texas mitt maker | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Bat-maker, with David Ortiz helping out, bets on Fall RiverPosted 7/9/2008 - 12:40 AM : Viewed 11490 times.
From Source : boston.bizjournals.com |
| | | In the heart of Red Sox nation, Buddy Lewis feels he has a hit on his hands, lots of hits.
As a lead investor in Nokona Sporting Goods Company, Brookline’s Lewis is skippering the 74-year-old Texas company’s comeback in the baseball and softball equipment industry with two new manufacturing facil...... | | | Bat-maker, with David Ortiz helping out, bets on Fall River | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Nokona Baseball Academy a hit with all Posted 7/7/2008 - 8:24 PM : Viewed 7260 times.
From Source : www.heraldnews.com |
| | | During the winter of 1995, Shaun Skeffington and Marc Coriaty were fixtures at the batting cages located inside the Baseball Factory, located in a mill complex at the bottom of Pocasset Street.
Each day after school, the two Durfee High teammates took turns pitching to each other, working on the ...... | | | Nokona Baseball Academy a hit with all | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
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| | | The American pastime has come to Fall River in a big way.
Before Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Nokona Bat
Factory in the Fall River Industrial Park, a black stretch limousine drove slowly by.
Fifteen minutes later, the emcee, company CEO Buddy Lewis, announced to the gathering of ...... | | | Bringing out the big bats | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Video: 'Big Papi' helps celebrate Nokona factory's grand openingPosted 6/18/2008 - 12:00 AM : Viewed 11080 times.
From Source : www.metrowestdailynews.com |
| | | Baseball’s opening day may have come in April but the Spindle City didn’t mind waiting a little longer.
With everything from marching bands to one of Major League Baseball’s biggest stars, local dignitaries gathered Friday afternoon to officially open the Nokona Baseball Factory in the city’s ind...... | | | Video: 'Big Papi' helps celebrate Nokona factory's grand opening | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Opening day for Nokona in FR Posted 6/16/2008 - 7:49 PM : Viewed 9125 times.
From Source : www.heraldnews.com |
| | | State and local dignitaries and representatives of the Boston Red Sox and Pawtucket Red Sox will be on hand today to welcome Nokona Athletic Goods Co. to the city and the region.
Ribbon cutting is slated for 2 p.m. The B.M.C. Durfee High School Band will play, signaling a grand weekend for the No...... | | | Opening day for Nokona in FR | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
| | | | | Bat makers want to put Fall River on the baseball map Posted 3/22/2008 - 12:10 AM : Viewed 5170 times.
From Source : www.wickedlocal.com |
| | | Plans by the Nokona Athletic Goods Company to build a 12,000-square-foot facility in the Industrial Park have changed slightly, but hope springs eternal that Major League Baseball-approved bats will leave the city for stadiums and locker rooms around the country on April 1.
Nokona Managing Director...... | | | Bat makers want to put Fall River on the baseball map | | | | | | Read All Nokona News | | | | | |
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