Also, this thread made me check out lids, and I found at lest three more Twins 47 Yankee hats I want.

I also have a newer model fitted that I now wear more often only so as not to completely destroy the old one.

For a long time my go-to was my 1920s throwback, 8-panel, short brim, low-crown Babe Ruth model.

I also have a 1915 throwback I bought in Cooperstown, white cap with blue pinstripes, blue brim, red NY, also 8-panel, sort brim/low crown, but I rarely wear that one.

When I played softball for work I wore a Cooperstown Cap Co. 1970 Orioles Cap (more accurate logo than the currently available throwbacks) because a) I love that cap and b) it matched my company’s logo (Penguin Books, orange & black bird).

I will also rotate through a blue away Nationals cap bought at RFK and throwbacks of the ’80s Brewers glove cap (all blue home) or original Mariners cap (yellow pitchfork M). I have a couple others as well (1950s NY Giants Cooperston Cap Co, some mL caps, one Cape Cod League cap bought at a game there) but don’t wear those as often.

I’m constantly thinking of buying more, particularly given my thinning hair and increased time spent in the sun with the kid and/or dog (seems like a good excuse, no?). The only catch is I’m primarily interested in throwbacks and a real stickler for accuracy, and pretty much every throwback you can find I can find a flaw in (even my Mariners cap is too dark of a blue, though the Brewers cap is perfect). With Cooperstown Cap Co. (which had it’s own issues) out of business, can anyone recommend a place to purchase accurate throwbacks (read: not the Cooperstown Collection stuff)?

1) Mike Keneally’s beyond brilliant debut solo cd: hat.

2) Bronx Banter shirts. we need them, Alex. would be sooo cool!

Chattanooga Lookouts
Hudson Valley Renegades
Milwaukee Brewers (MLB Cooperstown Collection)
Montreal Expos (MLB Cooperstown Collection)
(2) Pittsburgh Pirates (MLB Cooperstown Collection, rec league team)
Minnesota Twins
Atlanta Braves
Baltimore Orioles (1966 smiling bird edition)
Colorado Rockies
Detroit Tigers
California Angels
LA Dodgers
SD Padres
Brooklyn Cyclones
Washington Nationals
Texas Rangers
Cleveland Indians
NY Yankees

to bags: awesome. fit that shit.

After that I have the one I wore to every game from 2006-2008 and which I smeared field dirt on before the last game at the old house. That one’s retired. Likewise, I have my inaugural season from 2009 with new field dirt smeared across the front.

I wore a 2009 WS hat to every game last year, and will do the same until they make it to the WS again. I also wear a blue and orange Yankee hat to Mets and Knicks games.

There’s a few more different colored ones I wear if I’m feeling like mixing it up, but the above are the regulars.

17] LOL. I did the same thing with my Virginia Tech Yankees hat (sans taking it to the tailor). I learned a few things the day I took a knife and scissors to it: the fitted New Era 5950 hats are bulletproof; there is foam underneath the “NY” thread; and that the orange thread from the “NY” was in our office for months. I heard no end of it from my wife, who would find miniscule pieces of orange thread laying about and then tape them to a heart or other nice note that she’d leave behind for me. Seriously, we found orange thread in the office when we moved and left California.

So there is that hat, which is, BTW, from when the team went to Blacksburg during 2008 ST and played the Virginia Tech team. I remember that Jason Giambi struck out, ha ha.

My (and my wife’s) fave is my all-black Yankees hat, which reeks of Evil Empire and really scares John, Tom, and Larry. My other one, the standard blue and white, never really fit right, so I gave it to one of the kids here (Oklahoma) on a baseball scholarship and he took it back to the Bronx to give to some poor kid with a smaller dome than mine. That sounds kind of wack as I’m reading it now, but it was practically brand new.

And Bags, if you want a hat that fits better, the low crown 5950s by New Era are great.

It’s rare I wear the Yankees cap, if I wear a baseball cap, it’s from whatever team I’m playing on at the time, or a Yomiuri Giants cap a friend sent from Japan a few years ago.

i love this hat. fits me like a glove. so to speak.

Since moving away from home my mother has gotten into the habit of buying the random bombers hat she finds on sale in a store or picks up for me after the Yanks grab another world series banner (only one so far, but I’m perpetually optimistic at this time of year that the end of the season means one more will arrive at my apartment unannounced in the mail!). She knows I don’t need to add to my hat collection, and really only wear the one most of the time, but it’s just another connection Mamma Dukes makes sure we maintain now that she’s got an empty nest. Some of the ones she sends me are definitely a bit garish for my tastes, but every time I get one it makes the day that much better and I proudly line my closets shelves with the good, bad, and ugly.