The Bay Bridge series: Athletics vs. Giants

I’m on vacation for a week, and I celebrated by watching the San Francisco Giants host the Oakland Athletics in their first interleague games of the season. I wish I had one of those A’s-Giants combo caps that were available during the 1989 Bay Bridge World Series, the one that was interrupted by the Loma […]

Don’t knock the Rock!

By happy chance, I stumbled tonight onto a story on Cleveland.com about one of the great occasions in Cleveland Indians’ history, the night 50 years ago when Rocky Colavito slugged four home runs against the Orioles in Baltimore. That was June 10, 1959. I wish I could say I remember the game, but I was […]

Entertaining Cole Hammels ad for New Era caps

Watching ESPN at lunch today, I spotted this commercial for New Era caps featuring Cole Hammels of the Philadelphia Phillies. It’s good for a chuckle or two.

Let’s go, Big Unit!

Randy Johnson heads to the mound Wednesday night in Washington in search of victory No. 300. Over the years, Randy has worn the caps of many ballclubs in both the American and National leagues, starting with the Montreal Expos. It’s a quirk of fate that his first crack at No. 300 comes against his old […]

And the Britain’s Got Talent winner is… The Houston Astros?

Major League Baseball caps can show up in the most unexpected places, as the hit UK show “Britain’s Got Talent” has proved. The winner of this year’s competition was not Internet phenomenon Susan Boyle but an athletic dance troupe called Diversity. BGT has only crept into the American consciousness on a broad scale this year, […]

A Memorial Day tribute to those who gave their lives

This is Memorial Day 2009, and we pay tribute to those who gave their lives in service of their country. I have only a few military caps, including this one that I picked up some time ago in the waning years of Naval Air Station Alameda. It’s from the USS Abraham Lincoln, which used to […]

MLB special caps for Memorial Day

One of my regular reads is the Uniwatch blog, which features the “obsessive study of athletic aesthetics.” I was casting about this morning for a Memorial Day weekend theme and encountered this Uniwatch post about the red caps ball clubs will be wearing to honor the nation’s war dead. That’s a red, white & Brewers […]

All hail, King (LeBron) James!

It’ s been years since I’ve paid anything more than cursory attention to the NBA playoffs, and what’s drawn me in this year is the intriguing possibility of a finals matchup between LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. I don’t know what lies ahead in the Eastern […]

Can a fantasy sports team wreck your love of baseball?

Late in tonight’s ballgame between the Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays, slugging Carlos Pena came up with two men on and a chance to break a scoreless tie and give the Rays the victory. I was listening to the game on the car radio on my way home from work, and I faced […]

A loss to the Dodgers

The Ball Caps blog is observing an evening of silence in recognition of the San Francisco Giants’ shutout loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles. The sun will come up tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar.