Author: KristineKHolstein

From the Diamond to the Streets: The Unstoppable Rise of Cap Culture

The Origins and Evolution of the Baseball Cap The story of the baseball cap begins not on city streets, but on the sun-drenched fields of America’s favorite pastime. In the mid-19th century, the New York Knickerbockers baseball team wore straw hats, but it was the Brooklyn Excelsiors in 1860 who first donned a modern ancestor: