John Golomb Legacy was built on the same principles that his grandfather, Jack Golomb, scientific design for the advancement of sporting goods products and equipment.
John’s way of continuing the Golomb family legacy that spans 94 years and three generations of manufacturing in the New York metropolitan area. John’s grandfather, Jacob J. Golomb (Jack), founded the renowned Everlast Sporting Goods Company in 1916. Jack was an innovator, a promoter, and a publisher. In fact, Jack was among a unique group of entrepreneurs who pioneered the American sporting goods industry in the first half of the 20th Century.
Jack’s son, Dan Golomb (John’s dad), served as CEO of the company for 50 years after the passing of his father. During his tenure, Dan took the great name and made it into an icon by nationalizing and internationalizing it.
John brings to the business over 25 years of experience manufacturing, engineering, restoring and designing baseball, football, and boxing equipment. This includes 10 years as the Product Design Supervisor, and 23 years running John Golomb LEGACY . The simple principle of producing high-quality products that last and providing personal service, has been the hallmark of the family tradition and legacy, and has been the secret ingredient behind the worldwide reputation associated with the family’s name in the sporting goods industry.
Baseball gloves presented a new challenge for John’s unique leather-crafting abilities. In 1987, he pursued his new endeavor, starting originally as a baseball glove repair company. However, soon John discovered that the mitt-relining aspect of his service was unique in America, and made him unique among sporting goods repair businesses.
Quickly, the company became associated with fine restoration work of all types of sports products – many of the nation’s best-known glove collectors were now sending him their mitts for repair. As more and more gloves arrived, it became quite obvious to John that the gloves made by the major companies, usually bought at chain sporting goods stores, were no longer made with the quality they once were famous for. He saw that the gloves coming in for repair that had been made recently were noticeably inferior to the same models made years ago. Why? Because most gloves sold in America are now imported from abroad.
He concluded that to keep prices down and volume up, the name brands have simply cut corners, thereby diminishing the quality of their gloves. Other reasons for low-quality gloves being sold today include the lighter, softer leathers used to ease break-in, and the proliferation of vinyl or other man-made materials as substitutes for full grain leathers.
As a result, John Golomb began making a complete line of replica gloves, including some original designs. Hundreds of ma through John's repair service, enabling John to compile leather-craft know-how based on nearly 100 years of well-made gloves.
Almost all of these gloves have been photographed, examined, patterned and replicated. This accumulated information has made it possible for Johnny to make extremely accurate replicas of gloves for his Pastime Replica Baseball Glove line using just a photo or a picture from a catalog.
The most popular requested replicas are from the pre-war years, but interest in 1950s and 1960s models is rapidly growing. Popular models include the Wilson Ball Hawk (3 finger), the Rawlings Playmaker (4 finger), and the Rawlings XPG-6 (Mickey Mantle model). Many of John's gloves have been seen in movies, documentaries and commercials.
John Golomb boasts one of the largest pattern achieve of glove models (over 800 patterns, starting from the late 1880s to conventional present designs) and America's only ambidextrous model which is his original design.
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