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Caps/Hats/headgear to wear with your flight jackets...
- Thread starter Thomas Koehle
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Chandler
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@Pa12 -- Did Doc Holiday ever make it to Calgary? 
Custom-made Holiday hat I bought at a local (since closed) mercantile back at the height of the "Tombstone" craze. It wasn't an exact movie replica, but a used a little steam and shaped it myself -- complete with the wind-blown side that looked pretty cool.
It's really not as dusty and dirty as it looks, something about my phone-cam that highlights edges too much.
Custom-made Holiday hat I bought at a local (since closed) mercantile back at the height of the "Tombstone" craze. It wasn't an exact movie replica, but a used a little steam and shaped it myself -- complete with the wind-blown side that looked pretty cool.
It's really not as dusty and dirty as it looks, something about my phone-cam that highlights edges too much.
B-Man2
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Ok Chandler …. Using your own words “We need to see fit pics … or it never happened “Every day wearers in rotation. Left to right: Memphis Redbirds minor league; '50s White Sox; '40s Cardinals; Current-day Cardinals; '50s into '60s Cardinals.
Pa12
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Don’t know if doc ever made it there but it’s definitely cowboy country. I always use the old joke on my Calgary buddies “ nothin but queers and steers in Calgary and I don’t see no horns on ya boy”. Sorry, not politically correct, just a joke.@Pa12 -- Did Doc Holiday ever make it to Calgary?
Custom-made Holiday hat I bought at a local (since closed) mercantile back at the height of the "Tombstone" craze. It wasn't an exact movie replica, but a used a little steam and shaped it myself -- complete with the wind-blown side that looked pretty cool.
It's really not as dusty and dirty as it looks, something about my phone-cam that highlights edges too much.
Chandler
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Too many questions at that stage, "You want what?" "To post where?" "Why?"That’s what wives and grandkids are made for …taking our selfies
Nevermind, I'll do it myself.
She's okay with it when she knows I'm trying to sell something.
B-Man2
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Then it sounds to me like a “well thought out lie is in order” As Machiavelli once postulated “The end justifies the means”Too many questions at that stage, "You want what?" "To post where?" "Why?"
Nevermind, I'll do it myself.
She's okay with it when she knows I'm trying to sell something.
B-Man2
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A 1942 St Louis Cardinals cap … that’s outstanding . Are they caps that were made for commercial sales or actual team or game worn caps ?
Chandler
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It's an American Needle cap -- a company that made "repro" vintage ball caps for many years (the 50s - 60s Cards and 50s Sox cap in my group picture are AN caps), but a few years ago New Era got an MLB contract that forbid (forbade?) any other manufacturer from selling any caps with current team affiliation markings. AN had to stop manufacturing their outstanding MLB repro caps -- and now no one else is making vintage repros.
I've bought one New Era cap since then, and only because I got it directly from the minor league team itself.
Really stinks because I know these caps are going to wear out soon and I don't have another source of their kind.
Oh yeah, and they're fitted caps.
B-Man2
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I recently picked up a game worn Phillies cap and a game worn jersey . I’m not into caps that much but I’m sure it’s a New Era cap
Chandler
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If the cap is from a game within the last 10 years, it's definitely a New Era. If it's from the last 3 or 4 years it will have a stitched NE logo on one side of the cap -- along with the usual inner tag.
I started buying New Era caps back in the early 80s because I wanted a fitted cap like the players. NE had mail order ads in the backs of the baseball newspapers at the time -- direct from the factory.
But back then there were a few different cap companies -- a few still selling to pro and minor league teams. Slowly these other companies went out of business and NE filled the gaps until they decided they should be the only vendor to MLB (not sure about other leagues like NFL -- but there's plenty of NE equipment there, too).
It's just that when they finally told everyone else, like American Needle, that they couldn't license MLB trademarks that I got a little indignant about their monopoly. AN was making great vintage repros at decent prices and now no one is.
Chandler
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This is the website I used to use for American Needle purchases -- you can see they still have some AN Cooperstown caps, but most are sold out and won't be restocked.
Cooperstown Collection Vintage Baseball Gift Mall : Dugout Memories
Cooperstown Collection vintage American Needle baseball caps.
www.dugout-memories.com
B-Man2
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Seems like another cool hobby . When I went to the Mighty 8th museum a couple of weeks ago with Young Medic ( Tim) , he was wearing a ball cap from the movie “A league of their own” . I asked him about it and he told me that he had it made by the same woman who actually made the ball caps for the movie. Once the movie came out her cap business exploded and now she hand makes different movie ball caps .
Chandler
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@YoungMedic -- I'd like to know the name of that cap maker!
Chandler
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Here's a bit of history on Roman Pro -- another company of whose caps I have a few.
ballcapblog.blogspot.com
Company Profile: The Roman Pro Cap Company
In the days before exclusive licensing, many different companies competed to make various parts of a ball players' uniform. Many different c...
ballcapblog.blogspot.com
YoungMedic
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Here's a bit of history on Roman Pro -- another company of whose caps I have a few.
Company Profile: The Roman Pro Cap Company
In the days before exclusive licensing, many different companies competed to make various parts of a ball players' uniform. Many different c...
I forget how exactly I stumbled on her but at the time she was getting back into the hat business, as you can see she’s doing very well
Pa12
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I too went through the Wyatt Earp stage@Pa12 -- Did Doc Holiday ever make it to Calgary?
Custom-made Holiday hat I bought at a local (since closed) mercantile back at the height of the "Tombstone" craze. It wasn't an exact movie replica, but a used a little steam and shaped it myself -- complete with the wind-blown side that looked pretty cool.
It's really not as dusty and dirty as it looks, something about my phone-cam that highlights edges too much.
