With a final trip to the House That Ruth Built planned for Saturday, I just purchased a new Yankees cap. By my count, this is the seventh one I have owned. The first one was from McDonald’s, circa 1981. I still have it or the one my folks bought for my brother. The second one was also an adjustable one that I wore for a while in high school — it is almost certainly lost to time. Later on, I got serious and bought a fitted wool one, back in the days when they had green underbills and no MLB logo. I wore that one out and replaced it with a couple of others over the years. I probably bought this new one’s predecessor sometime earlier in the decade at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, but it seems to have shrunk (or my head got bigger) so I went out and bought this new one. Since the new material that they started making the hats with a couple of yers ago is much more durable and breathes better, this is probably the last Yankees cap I will buy for a long time.
In case you were wondering, I have four Nats hats — three fitted, and one adjustable; the adjustable one was given out at a game. My original hat, a wool blue one, shrank over the years, and has gotten quite dirty. The other two fitted caps are the new material, one home and one away (my primary).
