The former New Orleans Zephyrs certainly had the most colorful options to choose from when renaming their team for 2017. There were two different kinds of pastries, animals and even a sandwich among the choices.
The Miami Marlins’ Triple A affiliate has settled on, perhaps, the most unique moniker in all of MiLB. They’ll be taking the field next season as the New Orleans Baby Cakes.
It’s Election Day in America, which means there’s no better time to look at one of the most interesting sets of caps from the 2016 season.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the New Hampshire primary, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, introduced a recurring “We The Fans” promotion throughout the 2016 campaign. They allowed baseball fans across the United States to cast their votes and decide which hat the team would don with their “bipartisan” jerseys on opening day.
Though the 2017 Minor League Baseball season is a few months away, there’s plenty of baseball cap-related news out and on the horizon. New teams are arriving and several others are rebranding, leading to new caps aplenty! Here’s where we stand now:
I like baseball caps. As soon as spring weather is close, I don’t leave the house without one on my head.
But aside from their practical use, I love what baseball caps can express, especially in the hands (or on the heads) of minor league teams.
Major league caps, for the most part, don’t deviate from the norm that much. There’s a little more experimentation at the minor league level, though. These teams, outside of the national spotlight, have a chance to do exciting things, like helping dorks like me learn about cities around the country, while having a bunch of fun doing it.
This site is me musing about the weird, wild and downright fun stuff baseball teams do with their caps.
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–Bobby
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