The NHL Winter Classic starts the new year right

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=hockey&iid=7443635″ src=”0/7/7/f/Fans_enter_for_ac78.JPG?adImageId=8759859&imageId=7443635″ width=”380″ height=”250″ /] I missed the game, and that’s a shame. The Bruins beat the Flyers 2-1 in the third annual NHL Winter Classic today at Fenway Park in Boston. It’s difficult to find photos of ballcaps at hockey games, at least among the players. I offer the above photo […]

The Rose Bowl – A Midwestern perspective

As a child of the Big Ten Conference, I believed the Rose Bowl was a place of magic, enchantment and, inevitably, frustration and resignation. With piles of snow outside our homes in suburban Cleveland, we’d tune in to the game as the sun was setting in Eastern time. We’d watch in fascination as 100,000 people […]

2009: The year in review

The second calendar year for the Ball Caps Blog is coming to a close, and I’m happy that I’ve sustained it for that long. Regular posting is the key to building blog traffic, the experts say, and my experience with this blog bears that out. In a couple of stretches I tried to post daily […]

Switching caps (again): Mark DeRosa

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=Mark+DeRosa&iid=5056280″ src=”3/b/e/3/Mark_DeRosa_meets_d307.JPG?adImageId=8722277&imageId=5056280″ width=”234″ height=”305″ /] Mark DeRosa joined a new team today, the San Francisco Giants. As a Giants fan, I’m pleased. Assuming he keeps pace with his performance in recent years, he’ll add some pop to what has been an anemic offense the last year or two. After seven years with […]

A merry Christmas to all!

To all readers of the Ball Caps Blog, a merry Christmas! Our last-minute shopping is pretty much done, although I need to do a final check for stocking stuffers and may need to make a late dash to the drugstore. For our morning errands, I was sporting my 1948 Cleveland Indians cap.

A tip of the cap to 49ers broadcast analyst Gary Plummer

Fans who spend their lives rooting for one team in one town and listening only to the hometown announcers don’t have much of a basis for comparison of the men and women behind the microphones. As a kid in Cleveland, after the Indians’ games I’d catch a few innings when atmospheric conditions were right from […]

The Granderson trade: Grist for the Yankee-haters’ mill

[picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=curtis+granderson&iid=4994621″ src=”0/9/d/f/Detroit_Tigers_vs_a152.JPG?adImageId=8153941&imageId=4994621″ width=”234″ height=”159″ /] The floats that rolled down the Canyon of Heroes in the World Series victory parade have barely cooled their engines and the New York Yankees are already bolstering their formidable roster. The details aren’t final, but at the winter meetings in Indianapolis the Yanks have engineered a […]

It’s cricket, and it’s a great cap!

[picapp align=”right” wrap=”true” link=”term=cricket+and+strauss&iid=6137869″ src=”a/f/d/e/5TH_ASHES_TEST_321b.JPG?adImageId=7932204&imageId=6137869″ width=”234″ height=”312″ /] I’m nearly illiterate when it comes to cricket, but I recognize a great cap when I see one. I spotted this cap on England cricketer Andrew Strauss while cruising PicApp for anything that struck my fancy. The cap Strauss wears with the crown atop three lions is […]

Don’t bother Tiger Woods, officer. He’s sleeping.

[picapp align=”left” wrap=”true” link=”term=Tiger+Woods&iid=7029112″ src=”9/9/1/c/2009_Australian_Masters_8b90.jpg?adImageId=7920619&imageId=7029112″ width=”234″ height=”150″ /]Before the Tiger Woods story erupted this Thanksgiving weekend, I’d been ruminating on the differences between elite athletes and us mere men and women. Highly paid pro athletes like Woods in golf or Alex Rodriguez in baseball or LeBron James in basketball exist on a plane at which most of us mortals […]

Baseball and Black Friday

This is Black Friday, when millions of bargain-crazed Americans head to the malls to shop for deeply discounted merchandise. The only purchases I’ve made today have been on behalf of my son: at the doctor’s office, the pharmacy and – in a weak moment – an online gaming site. If you’re a baseball fan and […]