This post marks the second week in a row that I have brought out an Ebbets Field Flannels retro but the wool serge fabric and a stiff crown on this retro of the hat logo the San Jose Giants wore for one year only in 1989 is far less common than the wool broadcloth found on the majority of the Ebbets caps.
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Something this esoteric and awe-inspiring could only have come from ballcap aficionado Paul Carr of The Ballcap Blog who is a native of San Jose and is the force behind the 1986 San Jose Bees retro that I have wrote about here just a few years ago. I met Paul many years ago and other than our shared love of hats, I was glad to hear we are both really into music as well.
We're both into a variety of music and last I checked his favorite band is Green Day who hail from the East Bay. I have been a big fan of theirs since I was a teenager in the mid-1990s but the Bay Area band that I dig the most is the Grateful Dead which I have a sneaking suspicion is not a band that most Green Day fans also enjoy but hey, I would be happier to be wrong here!
I have been thinking about the Dead recently because of the GD60 concert that took place at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco last weekend in celebration of band's 60th anniversary. I am not enough of a superfan to such a distance to see those shows and truth be told the Giants happened to be here in New York playing the Mets and I was too tired to even go to a game!
Fittingly enough, the first show of the three night run was on August 1 which would have been Jerry Garcia's 83rd birthday had he not passed away on August 8, 1995 which as fate would have it was 30 years ago today. To that point, I am seeing extra symbolism in the "J" on this week's hat as it pays just tribute to Jerry as well.
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| The logo the Giants wore in the late 1980s and early 1990s is my favorite version and I love seeing it represented in the photo above of Vince Welnick, Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead are seen here singing the National Anthem ahead of a San Francisco Giants game at Candlestick Park on April 13, 1993 |
This week's Fresh Fitted Friday selection is not going on the Trading Block however please don't hesitate to reach out if you want any other cap from that list and you are willing to part with any of the hats on my Wish List.
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