by softball66 » May 30th, 2007, 12:11 pm
The colored gloves, this white and also blue and green, were a little marketing ploy by Bob Storey to provide Nokonas in "team" colors in the mid 1950s. Not a bad idea. This is the third white Nokona Billy Loes that's been found to my knowledge. I've not heard of the blue or the green leather showing up but they could be out there.
When the first white Loes was located there was also a black Nokona Bud Podbelian glove in the same "barrel" but I passed on that. Nocona's made some nice black ones in that general era, my favorITE being my Riverboat Smith model and thanks to glover Mike Yachnik I have a mint one of those to go with my backyard gamer!