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"A short history of the baseball cap.(The Home Forum)." The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Publishing Society. 1999. HighBeam Research. 19 Oct. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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"A short history of the baseball cap.(The Home Forum)." The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Publishing Society. 1999. Retrieved October 19, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55808234.html
If the United States has a national hat, it is surely the baseball cap. Even golfers, tennis players, and football players wear them, either when playing or while standing on the sidelines. Mail-carriers, truck drivers, and Boy Scouts wear them, too. You may have seen stores that sell nothing but baseball caps.
It took many years for baseball players to settle on the style of cap so familiar today.
William Arlt is an expert on the subject and president of the Cooperstown Ball Cap Co. He says the first baseball team, the Knickerbockers, wore straw hats! From the 1840s to the 1870s, players wore all sorts of hats - boating caps, jockey caps, even bicycling …
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