Best MLB cap of all time?

I used to think that too, and I remember as a kid getting annoyed at Tim McCarver because he kept referring on-air to the logo as an "M". I thought how a kid could know cursive letters and a broadcaster couldn't.

 

Since other people brought in MiLB hats, I used to love the simplicity of these Louisville Redbirds hats:



And it's hard to see, but I loved the ones they switched to in the 1990s too:

 

I once had this Kansas city A's hat, but I wore it so much that it could have been mined for salt. I think the A's wore it in 1962.

 

For the sake of minor league hats...

 

OK, I need to know *which* Dairy Queen in case I ever pass through your part of the world.

 

I followed the entire Indianapolis Arrows saga through the mid-1980s. The city was on a big high after getting the Colts to move, so we wanted everything (there was also a push to get the minor-league hockey team into the NHL -- I even have a pocket schedule with Market Square Arena on wheels "on the road to the NHL"). Every piece of info about the Arrows, I soaked up.

Art Angotti was the person behind the bid, and the Pirates were the main target. They had uniforms designed and everything. Held an old-timer's game in the Hoosier Dome (with a ridiculously short RF porch and no sliding pits).

The other thing I remember about the Arrows was, when the city was really getting behind the push, Marge Schott came through on the Reds caravan and, upon being asked about Indy in MLB, said "it'll happen over my dead body," causing quite a stir both here and in Cincinnati. I think that was the first time I realized the Indianapolis Arrows weren't just not a metaphysical certainty, but likely wouldn't even happen.

That, and the Hoosier Dome (which, otherwise, was patterned largely after the Metrodome, but they forgot to put in retractable seats on one end) was only built for football. Then, the economics of pro sports changed and Indianapolis really couldn't support more than the two teams it had.

And, back to the Indianapolis Indians, even though they haven't been an Expos affiliate since 1993, that's what I think of the Indians as being -- red, white and blue and being with the Expos. That those were the franchise's salad days (four straight championships in the late 1980s) didn't hurt.

Haven't found a proposed Arrows hat, but they did come up with uniforms.

 

That's a newer one. Too much writing on it. Needs to be more dominated by the logo. But I like the logo.

It's like when ballclubs put 18-point type on outfield signs. Why even bother? Nobody's going to be able to read it anyway.

 

Nobody remembers that unfortunate time the Orioles took a break from the birds and went surprisingly generic.

 

Actually - it does. It stands for Expos baseball in French.

 

That was the first minor-league cap I ever had. I had a pretty good sized collection at one point but now I think I only have three or four left.

 

Ha! That's what I used to think as well.