The Ridiculous History of Baseball Caps: How One Hat Traveled the World
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Nowadays it feels like everyone has a baseball cap at home... even though most of the folks wearing them do not, in fact, play baseball. So how did this one type of hat become so ubiquitous -- not just in the US, but the rest of the world? To answer the question, Ben, Noel and Max travel back to the early (hatless) days of baseball, following its evolution to the modern day.
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