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Johnny Golomb, the greatest boxing equipment designer of our time and grandson of the founder of the greatest boxing equip as the company’s former chief designer
 

 

America is fightin' back 

Made in the USA means American Jobs

If you are looking for the best of the best, from the sporting soul of New York, you are in the right place. The Golombs are the family that started the world-famous name in boxing and American sporting goods.

Every Legacy  product is a work of art and a symbol of American ingenuity and craftsmanship. Every custom designed baseball glove and vintage replica from our line of Pastime Preservations or boxing equipment from our LEGACY line, or restored piece of sports equipment is so well crafted and worked on with such personal care that it is actually guaranteed. Legacy makes the highest quality equipment for the discriminating professional, as well as for anyone who appreciates and treasures the value of his equipment in which he stakes his livelihood. All Legacy equipment is Made in the USA with pride. This means American jobs.

 

 
A Legacy Glove from a Legacy Family
 

Babe Ruth and Jacob J. Golomb

Johnny Golomb received his training at the famous sporting goods factory in the Bronx, New York City. Starting at the bottom where he learned and honed his leather crafting skills, he attained the position of Product Design Supervisor. In this capacity, he was responsible for designing and patenting new products for the manufacturer's line, such as the Thumbless Boxing Glove. This has led to universal use of gloves with attached thumbs preventing disabling eye injuries. Johnny was also instrumental in the design of a lightweight super-shock-absorbing competition headguard that has become the global standard for both Olympic and amateur competition.

Johnny has served as the personal designer for the champs, having created custom training equipment for Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Muhammad Ali.

 

 

Legacy was built on the same principles that his grandfather, Jack Golomb, scientific design for the advancement of sporting goods products and equipment.

Johnny’s way of continuing the Golomb family legacy that spans 90 years and three generations of manufacturing in the New York metropolitan area. Johnny’s grandfather, Jacob J. Golomb (Jack), founded the renowned sporting goods company in 1915. 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 (Johnny’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, 16 years running The Sports Doctor Inc. and most recently operating in the role of Director of Professional Boxing Products for corporation's Bronx facility. 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 Johnny’s unique leather-crafting abilities. In 1987, he pursued his new endeavor, starting originally as a baseball glove repair company. However, soon Johnny 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 Johnny 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 Johnny 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.

For more information about gloves, Pastime Preservations Service,  e-mail us at mailto:contactus@baseballglove.com or online at contact us

John Golomb                                                                                                        LEGACY Custom Sp. Gds.
Pastime Preservations
3, 2nd Street  #1
Brooklyn, NY 11231

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