Sorry for the lack of posts over the last year, I've been incredibly busy. I've been working on this article off and on since the last post. Please enjoy this analysis of the MLB team issued caps...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/new-eras-mlb-team-issued-caps.html
Despite the MLB lockout, the new MLB Spring Training caps are finding their way to stores. Much to everyone's surprise, the new caps are "trucker" style mesh caps, the likes of which have not b...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2022/02/all-that-is-old-is-new-again-trucker.html
New Era shut down their long-time US factory in Derby, NY in June of 2019. Since MLB requires the actual caps that the players wear on the field to be at least "assembled" in the US, New Era now ...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2021/03/differences-between-derby-ny-made-and.html
2020 has been an interesting year to say the least. For those of us that still prefer to buy made in USA MLB on-field player's caps, the pandemic has made buying them a bit more complicated. With...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/mlb-caps-of-2020-where-art-thou-2020-in.html
The Korean Baseball Organization has been thrust into the spotlight recently as for a period of time it was the only professional baseball league playing a regular season in 2020. MLB is now sche...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/kbo-baseball-caps.html
I have revised my New Era cap MLB on-field cap tag guide. It is now much more thorough and comprehensive guide, and I'm proud to say that this will be the be-all and end-all ultimate authority on...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-era-tag-chronology-guide-updated.html
"'47 Brand" is the only surviving ancestor of the great "KM Pro" baseball cap empire. When KM Pro shuttered in 1976, Devon Professional Cap kept its legacy going until the end of the 80s. They we...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/47-brand-becomes-serious-competitor-in.html
Updated 3/16/20 The baseball uniform market for Japan's major league - Nippon Professional Baseball - is wide open. Typically, the uniform supplier also provides the caps. However, some teams h...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/npb-baseball-caps.html
The San Francisco Giants offer two different opportunities to purchase game used caps during the offseason; an annual memorabilia sale held in mid-December and Giants Fanfest. The December sale...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/san-francisco-giants-memorabilia-sale.html
This was the first time in about three years that I had been able to attend A's Fanfest. My brother and I had been attending the NAMM expo in Anaheim in that time, which usually takes place the s...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/2020-oakland-athletics-fanfest-finds.html
This year's Padres Fanfest was quite something. Upon entering the Padres garage sale, I was greeted by tables and tables covered in caps. It appeared that the team was getting rid of all of its t...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/2020-san-diego-padres-fanfest-finds.html
I recently find out Will Arlt passed away. He was the owner of Cooperstown Ballcap Co., later Ideal Cap Co. It appears he may have passed sometime in early November of 2019. I had noticed that Id...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-tribute-to-will-arlt.html
According to multiple news outlets, upon the closure of New Era's manufacturing plant in Derby, NY, production of New Era's on-field caps for MLB team-issue only would be transferred to a facilit...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/exclusive-where-new-era-will-be.html
The San Diego Padres have brought back the brown! This past Saturday, the Padres unveiled the team's new brown uniforms. It's a major moment for those of us that have tried to make our voice...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-padres-back-in-brown.html
With the Washington Nationals reaching their first World Series in franchise history, I was curious to see if any made in USA World Series caps made it onto retail shelves. I put it out there o...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/made-in-usa-2019-world-series-caps.html
After New Era announced last year that their Derby, NY plant would shut down in June of this year, I made it my mission to visit as many ballparks as I could to search for New Era's USA made cap...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/in-search-of-last-caps-of-derby.html
Do you live on the West Coast of the United States and want to plan the ultimate baseball road trip? What If I told you that you could visit TEN different ballparks in the United States just by s...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2019/10/ballcaps-of-interstate-5-ultimate.html
The Ballcap Blog is back! I'd like to discuss the events that took place over the past year with New Era closing their plant in Derby, NY. In November of 2018 it was announced that New Era wo...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/change-isnt-always-good-thing.html
UPDATED 5/6/20 Not to toot my own horn, but I do consider myself to be the foremost expert on the history of the "bell panel" baseball cap started by the San Diego Padres, typically known as th...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/minoring-in-taco-bells.html
Dear New Era Cap Company, I first fell in love with New Era on-field baseball caps in 1995. I was nine years-old and had recently learned how to play baseball. My parents were not into sports t...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/an-open-letter-to-new-era.html
A couple of weeks ago, I got a message from a friend and fellow collector saying that he had found an odd Padres cap that he had never seen before. This is the cap. The caps with this st...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2016/08/mysterious-padres-taco-bell-cap-surfaces_14.html
Ah, the leather sweatband. A controversial topic for us baseball cap enthusiasts. Preferred by the traditionalist but derided by the casual wearer. Over the course of the last twenty-five years...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/hell-bent-for-leather.html
It has been well documented that many teams wore "pillbox caps" at some point during the 1976 season and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended up wearing them for ten seasons after that point. Aside fro...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/mystery-of-san-francisco-giants-pillbox.html
The coming 2016 baseball season marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most notorious teams in all of professional baseball, not to mention my hometown team the year of my birth; the 1986 San ...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/1986-san-jose-bad-news-bees.html
For the vast majority of the history of baseball, most teams wore just one type of cap per season. In the mid-19th century, "Road/Away" game caps began to appear. Then "alternate' caps and "sprin...
http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-many-is-too-many.html