Missives of a Baseball Milquetoast

Building on last week's Peninsula Pilots post was no easy task as that hat has been high on my  Wish List  for a long while. So it only makes sense for me to now bring attention to an equally important cap in my collection which is a 1989-92 Tidewater Tides retro which was a recent in-store only release from  @djmach716  at the flagship New Era shop in Buffalo, NY. Once again my friend  @yellowsub73  came through in the clutch by no doubt pushing for this cap to get the retro treatment as well as going to the trouble of purchasing it on my behalf but shipping it to me here in New York City. The flagship is the first ever store to retro this design from over thirty years ago and the hype around it will no doubt spawn more releases. After so many years of searching for a vintage version of a cap featuring this logo that is so dear to me, I was just about ready to give up when I caught wind of this release. The green undervisor here is historically accurate, for which I am thankful. I

Summer just started feeling like it was in full swing but the heat letting up in the middle of August is a sure sign the season is about to wrap up. When you think that most MLB teams now have less than 40 games to play, it really does seem like time has flown so with that feeling coinciding with National Aviation Day this coming Monday, August 19, this Peninsula Pilots cap gets the spotlight in this  week's post. I have previously given props to my Buffalo homie  @yellowsub73  who came through in the clutch big time by letting me know about about the listing for this Pilots cap that is in remarkably better shape than the other one I own which  I wrote about over five years ago  and  was signed by former Pilots pitcher Dan Sullivan. Ok so maybe the undervisor is a little tattered but that can be expected for a cap that is over 30 years old! Plus I love that the last place on this cap's journey seems to have been a sort of thrift store within the Kiln Creek Country Club in Newpo

Fans of the Grateful Dead do not need another reminder of this but today is the 29th anniversary of the passing of J erry Garcia who was  the band's principal songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. I can still remember sitting in that summer school geometry classroom when I heard the news on August 9, 1995. I was more into hip-hop and punk rock at the time but the older kids I looked up to thought the Dead was cool so I sort of did too, I suppose. Garcia would have turned 82 this year which is how old he looked due to  his stark white bushy beard and mane of frizzy hair due to hard living however he was actually only  53 years old when he died. At the time I was a teenager and now being three times as old as I was then, I realize I am nearly as old as Jerry was when he died which is a very perplexing realization. At any rate, much like baseball  has had a big impact on my life , so has Garcia's music which is why it makes me so happy to see these two interests of mine intersecting

Today is the first Friday in August and that means beer lovers worldwide celebrate International Beer Day. This is not to be confused with National Beer Day which is a separate holiday I honored here once before on its occurrence in 2023 with a  2011-18 Helena Brewers cap in paying tribute to Miller Brewing Corporation. For this one the focus is on a St. Louis Cardinals cap and Anheuser-Busch who are the titans of beer in the Gateway to the West.  For reference, the US holiday commemorates Franklin D. Roosevelt signing a law allowing Americans to brew and sell beer, and thus creating a path toward the creation of Amendment Twenty-one to the Constitution which would undo the prohibition laws that had been in place since 1917. By contrast, the holiday we are celebrating today was arbitrarily created in 2007 with the following intentions according to  internationalbeerday.com :  To gather with friends and enjoy the deliciousness that is beer. To celebrate the dedicated men and women who

This week's post is another light-hearted one as chicken tender enthusiasts collectively celebrate Chicken Finger Day which happens to fall tomorrow July 27. The holiday itself was coined by Raising Canes which is a fast food restaurant that works painstakingly hard to reach their goal of creating the perfect chicken finger, otherwise known as chicken goujons, chicken strips, chicken fillets as well  chicken tenders which is what they were first called upon being invented at  Manchester’s Puritan Backroom Restaurant  in 1974.  To honor the iconic regional delicacy that was created in their city, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats hosted their theme night where they played as the  Manchester Chicken Tenders on  June 4, 2022. Because they know palate preference for tenders, or tendies as they are also affectionally known as, they created three different flavors for fans to chose their preference: Classic, Buffalo and  Coconut. I have a tendency (or tendiecy) to gravitate toward spicy food

As we enter the final weekend before the MLB All-Star break, now is a good time for some levity. I searched for some fun baseball-related trivia and the best I could find was that today is the 45th anniversary of the Disco Demolition Night  promotion hosted at Comiskey Park as the  Detroit Tigers faced the Chicago White Sox on a fateful summer evening. Music fans no doubt recognize Chicago and Detroit as two cities with rich musical histories so admonishing a "lesser" style like disco the night they play each other is apt. Unfortunately, I have no disco-themed caps—or even an interesting one from either team—but the "Old English D" on my Denver Bears retro from Ebbets can easily be taken for a Detroit cap. I do not know the technical terms for this wordmark's design elements other than serif but I will say there is a notable difference between this and Detroit's current logo. Interestingly enough, the embroidery here very closely resembles the logo used by