Baseball Cap Topics

• trucker cap
• 20th centuries
• baseball hat
• professional tennis
• gimme cap
• brim
• slr camera
• mascot
• forwards
• baseball caps
• mask
• pitch
• profession
• photographer
• colors
• fit
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The "bill" or "brim" was designed to protect a player's eyes from the sun. Typically, the brim was much shorter in the earlier days of the baseball hat. Also, the hat has become more structured, versus the overall "floppy" cap of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The baseball cap was and still is an important means to identify a team by. Often the logo, mascot, or team's initial was placed on the cap. Usually, the cap was also fashioned in the official colors of a particular team.

This style of baseball cap is sometimes called a trucker cap or a "gimme cap" because it is given away for free as an advertising pitch.

For this reason, some public schools ban baseball caps. The idea of wearing the cap backwards is commonly attributed to catchers in baseball, as when they began using facemasks, they had to turn the cap around to fit the mask on. It can also be found in professional tennis. Another profession associated with the wearing of a baseball cap backwards is that of photographer, notably paparazzi - for the reason that an SLR camera cannot be held vertically to the eye whilst wearing a baseball cap with the peak forwards.

Source: Wikipedia > Baseball Cap