Show Off Your Stars and Stripes Caps...

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Rudy Jaramillo:

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I just got three from Steiner. 2010 Chicago Cubs:

Ivan Dehesus:











Larry Rothschild:

[tigerdale]

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some Tiger ones...Renteria 2008, Rodney 2009 & Santiago 2010...

[LastingsMilledge85]

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Lastings:

You've got it pretty well covered. The flag caps were worn from 2001-07...then the specially designed caps were introduced in 2008. Teams only wore them on Memorial Day, July 4th and September 11th, except for 2001, when they were worn after the resumption of play following the 9/11 terrorist attacks for every game for the rest of the season.

Dave Miedema

Dave, I know the Mets for sure wore the team caps with the side flag in 2008, but I'm not sure about the rest of the league. They only wore them on Memorial Day, and then on July 4th wore the red, white, and blue caps. Some teams in 2008 also wore those style caps, when their opponenets didn't like the Nationals. I included some pictures, of the examples I discussed. The first is Matt Wise in 2008 with the flag cap, and the second is a picture of the Nationals wearing the red, white, and blue caps but the Mets didn't wear those style caps in the game. The Nats wore those caps up until September 15 unlike everyone else.

[sox83cubs84]

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All I can guarantee you is that the NY Mets wore te caps with the flag on the side until the year 2008 when it started I don't know for sure. I would assume other teams followed the same trend as the Mets in 2008, but I'm not positive and haven't dug into it too much.

Lastings:

You've got it pretty well covered. The flag caps were worn from 2001-07...then the specially designed caps were introduced in 2008. Teams only wore them on Memorial Day, July 4th and September 11th, except for 2001, when they were worn after the resumption of play following the 9/11 terrorist attacks for every game for the rest of the season.

Dave Miedema

[frikativ54]

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ttt

[LastingsMilledge85]

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All I can guarantee you is that the NY Mets wore te caps with the flag on the side until the year 2008 when it started I don't know for sure. I would assume other teams followed the same trend as the Mets in 2008, but I'm not positive and haven't dug into it too much.

[frikativ54]

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The Mets at least, wore the caps with the American Flag on the side until Memorial Day of 2008, and I think the rest of MLB did as well.

All teams wore American flag hats from 2001-08? Or am I misunderstanding you?

[sox83cubs84]

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Lastings:

Good choices for patriotic caps, as well.

Dave Miedema

[LastingsMilledge85]

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These were my favorite "patriotic" caps...

[LastingsMilledge85]

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The Mets at least, wore the caps with the American Flag on the side until Memorial Day of 2008, and I think the rest of MLB did as well.

[sox83cubs84]

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Thanks, Dave, for all this valuable information. I would love to see pics of your Kevin Young Pirates hat. That's so neat that you actually got KY to give you something game-used - not sure that I have had that experience before.

-Frik

If I take any photos, it's gonna have to be of the old fashioned Kodak/Polaroid variety, as my computer doesn't have a photography setup.

I was fortunate to get the KY cap that day, but my buddy, ballhawk Joe McCarthy, got two that day (Bruce Tanner and Dave Clark).

[2000mvpfan]

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Here's an "old-style" Giambi flag cap-worn on 9/11/05...





Joe

[frikativ54]

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Frik:

The Stars & Stripes caps as they are designed now first appeared in 2008 with dark blue lids. The caps were red in 2009 and white crowned in 2010.

Prior to that were the Flag caps (with US flag logo on the left side). The 2002-07 versions were pretty much done the same way, and worn for 4th of July and 9/11.

The original flag caps were introduced immediately after MLB resumed from the period of mourning for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These were made with the flag directly embroidered into the cap fabric, and worn exclusively from the resumption of play through season's end.

The 2002-07 versions had the flag as a patch that was heat pressed onto the cap fabric.

I have one of the 2001 versions in my collection, a Kevin Young Pirates which KY gave to me at the last home game at Wrigley Field in 2001.

Dave Miedema

Thanks, Dave, for all this valuable information. I would love to see pics of your Kevin Young Pirates hat. That's so neat that you actually got KY to give you something game-used - not sure that I have had that experience before.

-Frik

[sox83cubs84]

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Frik:

The Stars & Stripes caps as they are designed now first appeared in 2008 with dark blue lids. The caps were red in 2009 and white crowned in 2010.

Prior to that were the Flag caps (with US flag logo on the left side). The 2002-07 versions were pretty much done the same way, and worn for 4th of July and 9/11.

The original flag caps were introduced immediately after MLB resumed from the period of mourning for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These were made with the flag directly embroidered into the cap fabric, and worn exclusively from the resumption of play through season's end.

The 2002-07 versions had the flag as a patch that was heat pressed onto the cap fabric.

I have one of the 2001 versions in my collection, a Kevin Young Pirates which KY gave to me at the last home game at Wrigley Field in 2001.

Dave Miedema