We Love Baseball – Baseball Caps

You may say that a baseball cap has nothing to do with the actual sport. That may be a valid point, but with this first edition of why we are linked on sports (haha, get it?!), I figured I would go out on a limb.  Listen, I understand there are hats for just about everything.  Baseball brings out that different type of fan though, and that fan is discovered through the use of baseball caps.

More than any other sport, you are allowed to wear these caps for absolutely no reason.  Seriously. If you wear a Titelist hat, well, you are playing golf, and you most likely think that you are way better than you really are. Hats from baseball, however, are used for anything, and anyone can wear any team they desire. It has become more of a fashion statement, which is pretty weird.

Let me give you an example. I see a lot of New York Yankees hats around. I’m sure there are a lot of Yankees fans around, but I’m also pretty sure that a lot of these people wearing the hats don’t give a shit about the actual team. This would all be good and dandy if the point of this type of merchandise wasn’t to show your true colors. You don’t see people in Chicago walking around with New York Jets hats (unless they are from Wisconsin and they had adopted the Brett Favre Jets). Baseball teams are just different though. For some reason it is not considered weird to wear a hat of a team you have absolutely no affiliation with.

It’s an interesting phenomenon to me mostly because it is only baseball that it seems to be true of. Do you wear baseball caps just for the hell of it? Are you like me and want to rip off the Yankees hats off of people’s heads when you know they don’t care about the Yankees?

So, you may ask why this makes the list of why we are linked on sports (it never gets old). It seems to me that this trend is occurring because baseball has had such an impact on society. It’s not like the hat is a new concept. Baseball has just transformed their logos into something more than supporting the teams. It is actually just supporting the MLB brand.