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.

RIP: Dom DeLuise

A tip of the cap to Dom DeLuise, the comic actor who died Tuesday. While it was not easy to find a photo of DeLuise in a baseball cap, there was no problem to find photos of him smiling. A manic yet warm smile seemed to be fixed on his face, which got big laughs […]

Run for the Roses

The 135th running of the Kentucky Derby was a dazzler, as 50-to-1 longshot Mine That Bird zipped along the rail and overtook the field to win by 6 and three-quarters lengths. For many Americans, the Derby is the only horse race they know. And if it’s the only one to which you pay attention, pat […]

The San Francisco Giants solar cap

The San Francisco Giants have been heavily promoting their “solar cap” giveaway, which the first 20,000 fans will receive at AT&T park on Sunday. It’s a promotion from PG&E. I could never turn down a free cap, of course. But were I going to Sunday’s game, let’s just say I might linger around the Willie […]

Sic transit Pontiac

General Motors is killing off another storied nameplate, Pontiac. What a shame. The American auto industry is in a fine mess, and given GM’s spiraling problems it’s no big surprise that the carmaker is sending Pontiac to join Oldsmobile on the scrap heap. Still, it smarts to read that the division that made the Firebird […]