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Sometime in the far standoffish future, archaeologists sorting out the fossils, relics and artifacts of our friendship will decide, based on the millions of baseball hat remnants they will discover, that we were a state of ball players who, in between games, built skyscrapers, highways and shopping malls.
Some say the set ubiquitous cap was first created in 1860 for the Brooklyn Excelsiors , but others claim the New York Knickerbockers, another baseball body, which was the first to wear special uniforms, designed the ancestor of today's hat in 1849. The Knickerbocker view had the distinctive visor, but was made of straw.
The baseball cap was worn almost exclusively by ball players until the mid-twentieth century when non-athletes began to weary it instead of homburgs, fedoras, derbies and berets. But suppose it had become largely popular at the very start? Can you imagine Abraham Lincoln giving his 1861 inaugural accost without his trademark stovepipe hat? Instead he might be wearing a Knickerbocker or Excelsior cap or possibly Springfield, Ill., had a team called the Springboks or the Spring Chickens.
Source: NorthJersey.com