I’m a resident of California and a lifelong baseball fan who has accumulated a bounteous number of caps over the years. Each of them has a story.
At left, I’m sporting a Tris Speaker Baseball League cap in 1968 while wearing my Red Sox uniform. Number 18 was on the back. Each team in the league had a different uniform, but we all wore the same wool cap. Check out the swanky belt.
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Charles // October 8, 2008 at 2:13 pm |
Hey there…I noticed you added my site to your blogroll. Thank you for that. I added you to my Friends of Left Field section. I like what I see so far, and will be checking out more.
lynn // December 6, 2008 at 11:08 am |
PLEASE HELP!!!
I am looking for the ballcap with the earflaps/ear warmers that some of the players were wearing in the World Series. Any idea where I can get one?
ballcaps // December 6, 2008 at 5:51 pm |
Lynn,
I wish I knew. One of the caps would make a great Christmas present.
Jimmy Rollins was the only player I saw wearing. You could try calling the Phillies’ administrative office on Monday and ask the media relations office if they know.
If I find anything on my own, I’ll get in touch.
Regards,
Dan
ballcaps // October 13, 2009 at 8:52 pm |
Lynn,
Remember last October when you asked about finding a Phillies cap with ear flaps? Look what I just found! (And I hope this link works. But if it doesn’t, go to newera.com and do a search for Phillies caps.)
http://www.neweracap.com/nshop/product.php?view=detail&productid=NE-F1MLBCUS00278&startColor=teamcolor&hatGroup=89&hatFit=&groupName=MenMLB&searchBy=group&prevHatGroup=&prevHatFit=&resetDropDown=hatFit
Shirly Giagone // December 15, 2008 at 6:46 pm |
Hi,
I visited your sports blog The Ball Caps Blog at http://ballcaps.wordpress.com/. You have really great articles and I’m glad I found your site.
I would like to know if you’re accepting guest blog posts, I’d like to send you an original blog entry on basketball which I think would fit nicely with your site. I’m doing this for free but would only require 1 backlink in the article to my site.
Please let me know if you’re interested in publishing this basketball blog entry so I can send it to you for publication soon.
Thank you
Shirly Giagone
ballcaps // December 15, 2008 at 8:50 pm |
Shirly,
Thanks for the comment, and I’m flattered that you asked. Sure, send it along and I’ll take a look.
Dan
Gary Broadway // December 18, 2008 at 7:37 pm |
Dan,
Was going through an old box tonight and found a complete San Jose Mercury News Paper, dtd , July 21, 1969, ON THE MOON, the same paper you used in your backdrop. All this happened within 2 hours. What are the chances!!!
Hope you enjoyed this comment!!
Gary
ballcaps // December 19, 2008 at 8:26 am |
Holy smoke! That is a crazy coincidence. Thanks very much. Cheers, Dan.
Charles Simone // December 29, 2008 at 11:25 am |
Dan,
You inquired about The Baseball Project album on my blog. This shouldn’t be too hard to find. You can get it from the record company, here:
http://store.yeproc.com/album.php?id=13465
I’m sure you can find it from various other sources, such as amazon.com, as well. Let me know if this helps.
Joe Cortez // February 5, 2009 at 11:46 pm |
No. 18 … 1968 … Red Sox … that’d be (former Yankee) Elston Howard. Great company. And yes, that’s a fine belt.
Jeremiah // July 13, 2009 at 8:04 am |
strange questions:
do you happen to have any pics of the Athletics (or any other teams) Turn Ahead the Clock hats from 1999? I remember seeing them all on display at the 99 All Star game and haven’t seen most of them since…
ballcaps // July 13, 2009 at 8:40 am |
I looked but couldn’t find any photos of those ‘Turn Ahead’ uniforms and caps. The script on the A’s jerseys was pretty crazy. I’ll give it another go and see what I can turn up.
ballcaps // August 20, 2009 at 8:20 am |
It’s been bugging me that I couldn’t find any photos of those “Turn ahead the clock” uniforms. Turns out that promotion was 10 years ago. Here’s a piece on the Uniwatch – a terrific blog that I read regularly – about it. It has a number of photos.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/090820&sportCat=mlb
Cheers,
Dan
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Daniel Mason // August 4, 2009 at 12:20 pm |
Who is the only player in the HOF without a logo on his cap? Or is there more than one? I seem to remember it was becuse the person refused to make a choice.
ballcaps // August 5, 2009 at 7:54 am |
Wow. Good question. I’ve not been to the Hall of Fame, but I’m guessing there have to be a lot of old-timers depicted without logos on their caps, mainly guys from the late 19th Century. I’ll look into it. Thanks for the challenge!
Daniel Mason // August 6, 2009 at 1:22 pm |
ADDITION–Sorry, I meant to specify modern-era ballplayer.