Hats and Tats: A Lifestyle

Where did the time go? As crazy as it sounds, it’s been 381 days since my last blog post, and to be honest, I feel like I’ve cheated a lot of you for it. Over the last year my life took ...

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This post pertains to the specific date posted above. Enjoy. My parents had separated for only a few months when my other decided to take my brothers Matt and Adam and myself to Liverm...

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I don’t know how to start this post, so I’m just going to get into it. I’m very lucky and very happy to be alive and I'm sorry for the families who were affected by the shooting at the ...

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I’ve been to Canada three times in my life. The first time was when I was 19-years-old. My girlfriend at the time and I traveled north to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend of boozery and ga...

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I think the first thing that I need to point out is that it’s obviously not August 12, 2013. I’m not even sure why I’ve continued to keep up with the charade that I’ll be able to ...

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The New York Mets have been an on-going joke in the New York metropolitan area as well as on social media for the better part of the last 20 years or so. It’s come in the form of subway...

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From May 10th to May 30th I cataloged and wrote about all of the 2012 Major League Baseball Stars and Stripes New Era caps I was able to get my hands on in honor of the men and women who ...

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I realize that today’s actual date is November 12th, so just humor me when you read it. I’ll make more sense if you actually think it’s August 9th. There was one game that stood ...

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Back on March 4th I tackled the original trident cap that the Seattle Mariners wore from 1977-1980, but I purposely left out one particular detail as it pertains to the cap that I’m wr...

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If you can’t tell by the expression on my face in the picture above, my head is getting squeezed by the 7 1/8 Milwaukee Brewers cap barely gripping the top of my skull. Someone (@NotYas...

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To get a full understanding of how important this cap and its marking are, I have to flashback 18 years to when I was a sixth grader in Mrs. Costello’s class at Discovery Elementary Sch...

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This post is kind of an interesting follow up to my Baltimore Orioles post on Rafael Palmeiro ’s Hall of Fame career from yesterday. By the time you’re done reading this you’ll understa...

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There’s a particular topic that I was bound to write about for one of my New Era Cap posts and it definitely appears that today is the day. The topic: performance enhancing drugs. For t...

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When it comes to being a collector nothing really beats the feeling of a good score. The definition of “score” is not just any object; rather, it’s something that tugs at the hearts...

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It’s been a while since I’ve done a post on the Montreal Expos. Unfortunately, there is a good reason for that. In the 35-year history of Expos baseball the team only wore four caps: ...

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One would think of all the hats in my collection this would have been one of the easier ones to track down. Nope! If my memory serves me correct it took me about three years of combing va...

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I had a lot of illusions going into the 2012 Major League Baseball season, especially considering how naïve I was thinking that my MLB Fan Cave experience was going to be all gumdrops an...

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This is one of the few articles I’m writing in which I’m writing in real time as opposed to the date that I am specifically writing for. I realize how far behind I am in these posts, a li...

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The 1994 Major League Baseball season was an odd year for more than just the players’ strike that took effect on August 12th. Several teams like the Montreal Expos had dug themselves ou...

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Most of time when I go into writing these posts I never do it with the thought in the back of my head saying, “Boy, the fans are really going to hate me for this one” until today. No, it ...

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Unlike a lot of my other posts, this one I have to jump forward to the date that I’m actually posting the story as opposed to when the story takes place. It sounds confusing, but you’ll g...

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2001 was an incredibly difficult year to be living in the Pacific Northwest as an Oakland Athletics fan, but somehow I managed. I was just at the tail end of my senior year at Columbia Ri...

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I’ve been trying to come up with something clever tow rite about in regard to this Toronto Blue Jays cap, but I’m having difficulty coming up with anything. If you recall in any of my...

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I realize that this is a bit late, but according to my post date, July 24th, it’s right on time. Happy birthday to my friend and fellow MLB Fan Cave Dweller Shaun Kippins! Of all the...

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If you’ve been keeping up with these blog posts I merely need to refer you to my Eugene Emeralds post from March 7th to have an understand of how this story began. Due to the fact that...

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