Missives of a Baseball Milquetoast

My standard process with the blog is to put forth lighthearted topics on the blog; however, today being the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks perpetrated on the United States in 2001 is urging me to honor the solemn occasion in a meaningful way in today's Fresh Fitted Friday post. Looking back at the archives, I am surprised that I did not properly commemorate this anniversary in previous years (2015 and 2020) when it occurred on a Friday; however, in my 1921 New York Giants "Roman Pro Cap Co." Retro Cap post , I did at least select a New York team's cap for that 20th anniversary post, which I  published a day early on September 10, 2001. I've written about New York teams recently, so I decided instead to honor Welles Crowther today, who was a volunteer firefighter and equities trader by profession who worked in the South Tower and saved as many as 18 lives during the September 11 attacks. There are many stories of people who lost their lives sav...

Recent posts have been a bit more effusive than what is befitting of a perfunctory Friday dispatch, so with this special "Labor Day" edition of Fresh Fitted Friday post, I solemnly swear to put forth the bare minimum amount of effort to honor the spirit of the holiday. I mentioned in last week's post that my San Francisco Giants would be in town playing the New York Mets, so I am certainly looking forward to catching hopefully two out of three games of that series, but if my schedule were a bit more manageable, I would have made a push to go see Phish play their three-show set at Dicks Sporting Goods Park in Colorado this weekend. Accepting circumstances beyond one's control can be challenging, so as much as I would love to be enjoying good times in Colorado with friends, staying in town to catch some games where my favorite (but terrible) team is playing is a fine option! So while I cannot physically be in Denver this weekend, the Denver Bears cap I am sharing with y...

I have had a memorable month of baseball thus far this August, which was kickstarted by my first-ever trip to Cleveland's ballpark. That was succeeded by a midweek trip to Yankee Stadium when the Seattle Mariners were in town playing the Yankees and followed that up with my first, and likely only, Staten Island FerryHawks game of the year less than a week later. I was also lucky to catch the opening game of the Mets-Padres series at Citi Field and then went back to Yankee Stadium for the middle game of the Yankees-Blue Jays series I mentioned in last week's post. The cherry on top of all these activities was another mid-series game, but this time it was in Queens as I had to watch the Brewers defeat the Mets this past Wednesday. I am hoping for at least two more trips to CitiField this season as the Houston Astros are in town this weekend and my San Francisco Giants will be here to take on the Mets the following weekend. The Giants and Mets are both terrible this year, so tha...

With the 2026 MLB regular season slowly winding down, I cannot help but reflect on all the fun games I have been to thus far. While it has worked out that I have already been to eight games at CitiField, my totals at Yankee Stadium will only reach half that amount tomorrow as I plan to see the Toronto Blue Jays during their second and final scheduled series in the Bronx this year. I always enjoy seeing the Jays, and this upcoming game is could get spicy because I am rolling in with a crew comprised of two Toronto fans and one Boston Red Sox fan. I caught the Red Sox last season on one of their trips to New York in 2025, but the only Jays game I was able to get to that year was rained out, so considering all this, tomorrow will be extra special. A fair amount of consideration goes into the selection of the caps I wear to ball games, but as you might imagine, the esoteric logos of former Mets and Yankees affiliates do not exactly inspire their fans in New York to stop me in my tracks to ...

My recent trend of posting caps that are of the vintage, retro and fauxback variety continues as this week's Fresh Fitted Friday  hones in on the latter category. In fact I selected this Erie SeaWolves cap  in recognition of today's date (August 14) being the designated time to celebrate "814 Day" in reference to the area code of the Erie region in Pennsylvania. I urge you to scroll down to check out the photos and captions of the cap I’ve selected, but first, let me share some insights on this lovable cap logo. The fauxback logo was designed as a “What If?” nod to a cap the SeaWolves would have worn from the 1930s to the 1960s, as stated on the team’s site . Vintage-inspired logos usually get my attention, and this week’s cap is no exception. I’ve written about the current SeaWolves logo and its predecessors , but it was only recently that I discovered the team’s brief affiliation with the Pittsburgh Pirates only lasted from 1995 to 1998. This whole time I was mista...

This week's Fresh Fitted Friday post brings us back to celebrating the zany holidays, as August 7 is National Sea Serpent Day, and I just so happen to have a cap design called "Sea Serpents" that I picked up from The Clink Room, which is perfect to celebrate the occasion. If you have been a regular reader of this blog for a good stretch of time, you have likely noticed I rarely go more than a few weeks without a post containing a nautical theme or some sort of water-adjacent theme, but there are occasional  droughts , so to speak. This week, however, the tides have aligned to bring this monster to the surface, so hopefully you enjoy it as much as I do! Every once in a while, a pre-order shows up on The Clink Room  that I just have to have, and when this monster reared its head, I was terrified of any outcome other than picking it up. I am still not sure why The Clink Room does not have a signature sweatband tag at this point, but symmetry be damned, this looks okay! Usual...