Last year, New Era Cap Company produced 65 million baseball caps in sizes small enough for a Chihuahua (4.5) and large enough for a linebacker (8.5). Sure, it's an easy way to cope with a bad hair ...

These are millionaires you could have a beer with. Cap worn by Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers during the 1983 season. Richard Gary / National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ...

1860: The baseball cap evolved to a longer brim and deeper, button-top crown, first worn by the Brooklyn Excelsiors. 1901-1902: The Detroit Tigers became the first team to put their mascot on its cap.

Rather than tracing the history, it’s a lot easier to explain why the trend took off in the first place. As we mentioned before, the baseball cap is nearly timeless, it doesn’t need its form ...

But it wasn’t until 1947 that New Era, a haberdashery company in New York, created the 59Fifty, or what is now the standard structured baseball cap. And it took more than 30 years for it to make ...