Today, WBUR profiled a Worcester company, Insignia Gloves (update: RichSPK notes that they’re on Twitter), which is one of only two companies in the US that make leather baseball gloves.
The Devaneys are proud that their gloves and all their components are made in America. They are even more proud that they’re being made mostly by new Americans: Latinos, Vietnamese, Albanians and Iraqis. The company reached out to community groups such as Catholic Relief Services, Lutheran World Services and the city of Worcester to find skilled workers.
It’s “one of the few factories in America that make for the American pastime with an immigrant base that’s not American,” Jim Devaney mused. “That is ironic.”