Anti Baseball Cap League?

Rats Riley · Jul 17, 2011

I am hereby forming a non-militant (in other words lazy) anti-baseball cap league.

Yes dear friends, we will purge the world of baseball caps like a fashion enema and return their use to those that SHOULD be wearing them... Baseball Players!

Now repeat after me... "Unless I'm carrying a ball and bat, I will not wear a baseball hat!"

Now don't you feel better?

I personally feel safer knowing the world is a better place!

HatsEnough · Jul 17, 2011

There are a few instances where I have no problem with baseball caps...

-Playing baseball
-If you are 12-years-old or less
-If you are working out of doors (a fedora is less conducive to labor)

Other than that, grown men not engaged as above should avoid them.

Tomasso · Jul 17, 2011

What's wrong with wearing your team's cap at the ballpark? [huh]

danofarlington · Jul 17, 2011

I'd wear them often if I thought they looked good on me.

But they don't.

The Good · Jul 18, 2011

danofarlington said:
I'd wear them often if I thought they looked good on me.

But they don't.

Same here, I'm convinced that they don't go with my style, and I don't think they look particularly good on me either. I feel like there's not really anything wrong with wearing one though. I know lots of people that wear them pretty often. It's just a type of headwear, and one that has happened to become very popular within the past two or three decades. I can't say I could actually explain the popularity, but without trying to offend some hat enthusiasts here, it's become essentially what the fedora has been in say, the 1940s, only the main difference is that it's still not as generally accepted with business wear.

DanielJones · Jul 18, 2011

I don't know. I think a fedora can be quite conducive to labor. Just ask these folks.

Cheers!

Dan

fmw · Jul 18, 2011

Tomasso said:
What's wrong with wearing your team's cap at the ballpark? [huh]

That's a fair point. I remember writing that baseball caps belong only on baseball players while they are playing baseball. I see the point of wearing team oriented clothing to the ball park to support your team. So I'll modify my position to include fans at baseball games. Do you think we should wear football helmets at football games and goalie masks at hockey games?

fmw · Jul 18, 2011

HatsEnough said:
There are a few instances where I have no problem with baseball caps...

-Playing baseball
-If you are 12-years-old or less
-If you are working out of doors (a fedora is less conducive to labor)

Other than that, grown men not engaged as above should avoid them.

My outdoor labor hat is a Tilley sun hat with a 4" brim. It is much more practical than a cap because it protects more of my head. In the winter when I operate the snow thrower I wear a Russian ushanka. Very stylish!!

Brando11 · Jul 18, 2011

Sorry. I love my fedoras, but I wear what I want, and sometimes that's a baseball cap.

-Brando

DanielJones · Jul 18, 2011

And these of Oskaloosa farmers seem to appear to know a little something about outdoor labor too.

Of course it is what they had to wear back then. When all you have to choose from in the mainstream is baseball caps that is what you wear unless you actively look elsewhere like us. To each their own I suppose is how the old saying goes.

Cheers!

Dan

Tomasso · Jul 18, 2011

fmw said:
Do you think we should wear football helmets at football games and goalie masks at hockey games?

That's an idea, considering how violent fans can get these days. Many stadiums have courtrooms set up on the premises to adjudicate cases of bad behavior.

But seriously, my generation grew up wearing their hats and mitts to the ballpark.................

T Rick · Jul 18, 2011

The Good said:
...It's just a type of headwear, and one that has happened to become very popular within the past two or three decades. I can't say I could actually explain the popularity, but without trying to offend some hat enthusiasts here, it's become essentially what the fedora has been in say, the 1940s, only the main difference is that it's still not as generally accepted with business wear

Nailed it young man, the cap has (partially at least) filled the gap left by the Fedora after a 20 or so year absence of an alternative.

I know the OP was having a bit of fun with this, tongue in cheek so to speak. So I'll play along. I'll take the oath. Just so long as no one complains when I occasionally do don a ball cap (mine are mostly non-baseball related). Because as Brando11 said, I wear what I want. Fun topic though!

Populuxe Cowboy · Jul 18, 2011

I went to a shop in a mall yesterday called "Lids." Thought I'd look for a new fedora. Instead, all it had were baseball caps. Nothing but baseball caps everywhere I looked. Utterly disappointing. So I am feeling a bit anti-baseball cap right now. I'm not entirely anti-baseball cap, though, since they do serve their purpose, but I will admit I don't own any myself. Just don't really care for them. I do hate baseball caps when they're worn with the bill completely flat and the tag still hanging from it. That's not how you wear them.

AtomicEraTom · Jul 18, 2011

I have to agree with this. I'm not a big baseball cap fan. The only time I wear one is after leaving the Plant, in the summer. I wear a brain bucket all day and a baseball cap just fits in my lunch pail easily. I don't really have a place to put my panama that I wouldn't worry about it.

HatsEnough said:
There are a few instances where I have no problem with baseball caps...

-Playing baseball
-If you are 12-years-old or less
-If you are working out of doors (a fedora is less conducive to labor)

Other than that, grown men not engaged as above should avoid them.

James71 · Jul 18, 2011

My work hat is an akubra cattleman. No ball caps on my rack. They're an American thing. The youth wear them sideways or perched high on their head with their pants hanging down. Unbecoming...

Chuck Bobuck · Jul 18, 2011

They're just the modern day newsboy cap. They may have started out as baseball hats, but farmers have been wearing seed caps and truckers have worn them for years. They can have team or company logos or an idea you can identify with.

MDphoto · Jul 18, 2011

Sorry guys, but I can't join. During the summer I keep the top and doors off my Jeep most of the time and wearing a fedora, panama or some straw hat while driving down the road just doesn't fly. Actually, that's the problem, the hat will fly right off your head.
I'm at the beach right now and I have my Stetson Retro with me. I wear the Retro at the beach and while walking around in town, but the baseball cap goes on while I'm driving.
I need a hat on my head and the baseball cap doesn't fly off.
Now, during the fall/winter, I'm right with you guys. Is there some sort of part-time membership?

Subvet642 · Jul 18, 2011

Brando11 said:
Sorry. I love my fedoras, but I wear what I want, and sometimes that's a baseball cap.

-Brando

+1

softouch · Jul 18, 2011

I saw a guy wearing a base ball cap and I thought I would help him - that's just the kind of guy I are.
After I turned his head around I realized that he was wearing it backwards.

Shangas · Jul 18, 2011

I was never a big baseball cap fan. And I will never wear one. For one, I don't think they're nice-looking and for two, as others have said, you really shouldn't be wearing one unless you're going to an actual sporting-event.

Regarding BB hats for working-wear, I always believed that the working-man's hats were the bowler, flat-cap, newsboy-cap or engineer's cap. I rather like the look of the flat-cap. I very nearly bought one once, but confound it, there weren't any in my size (although there was a nice selection of colours...).

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