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Rawlings Sporting Goods is an American sports equipment manufacturing company based in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Founded in 1887, Rawlings currently specializes in baseball and softball clothing and equipment, producing gloves, bats, balls, protective gear, batting helmets, uniforms, bags. Footwear includes sneakers, and sandals.
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Tsubota was born in March 1933 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.He was a boys baseball player. In 1948, at the age of 15, he joined Mizuno. He aspired to become a glove maker, and after a long period of work, at the age of 40, he was finally given the task of making custom-made gloves.
In 2003, Horween was providing leather for 3,000 Rawlings baseball gloves annually, and half of professional baseball players were using baseball gloves made from Horween leather. [ 4 ] Wilson Sporting Goods is Horween Leather Company's largest customer, using the company's leather in manufacturing footballs and basketballs . [ 1 ]
By the end of the 1940’s, the company also produced volleyballs, soccer balls, basketballs, striking bags, and boxing gloves, all made of leather. The first Nokona ballglove with Kangaroo leather was produced in 1957. Nokona was the first company to use this leather in a baseball glove; continuing it as a popular part of its lineup today.
Rawlings may refer to: Rawlings (company), a U.S. sports equipment company; Rawlings, Maryland, an unincorporated community in Allegany County, Maryland; Rawlings (surname), including a list of people with the name
Ray DeMarini founded the company in New York in 1990, introducing a "high-tech" softball bat. [1] The company's introduction of double wall bats, and the increased power they provided, drew praise and propelled the company's success, [2] but also prompted concern over bat safety. [3]
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