Missives of a Baseball Milquetoast

I might have just written about a Seattle Mariners affiliate just a few weeks ago but I had no choice but to feature yet another link to the M's this time as earlier this week some good friends recently shared photos of the whole family enjoying an Everett AquaSox game and a video of birthday girl throwing out the first pitch that night!  In addition to celebrating my friends' Northwest journey, this post joins that recent Riverside Pilots hat  with last week's San Jose Giants cap  as I' ve  written about the AquaSox before  but also shown love to that city in other posts  as the  Everett Giants  played in the Northwest League from 1984-94. Lastly , the Bellingham Giants ( 1995–1996)  and Bellingham Mariners ( 1977–1994) are another Northwest League link between the Giants and Mariners, respectively. Earlier I mentioned my other AquaSox hat with this being the third and final on-field logo left to feature here. The zaniness of this batting...

I hope everyone appreciated the temporary break from vintage caps over the last few weeks but I have to give you fair warning: this week's Everett AquaSox cap has plenty of aging on it as I have good reasons to believe this particular one was produced before 2004. Just looking at the logo is of no help in estimating this cap's age since the primary design has not been altered since the team's inception back in 1995, which of course was prime-time for tealism which we see prominently on the brim and cap button. The sweatband tags and satin taping on the inside are definitely from no year earlier than 2002 but I'd say this hat is either from that year or 2003, which was the last year this MILB tag appeared on most caps. I like the teal and poison-green on the MILB batterman here. Definitely spices things up! As you're well aware, I'm a huge fan of backstories when it comes to MILB teams and Everett is no exception. I've previously featured the A...

It's been torrid in NYC over the past few days and when I have a fever, the only cure is "more Teal"… ballcaps!  While last week's episode of Tealism Appreciation focused on an East Coast squad, this week we jaunt across the country to show love to another team with an "E" on the cap logo and it's one that I had all but forgotten about : the Everett AquaSox.   My friend and I were at the Mets game on Tuesday and as we were bashing the  DiamondBacks'  ultra-dark road grays, he  brought up the Ninja BlackSox from the old NES game  Baseball Stars . The uniforms are similar but even more,  the "DiamondBacks" moniker is reminiscent of the other stupid names in that game which made me think of the AquaSox. Last week's  cap was of a  Class A-Short Season team and so is this one, as seen by the use of the  90 degree rotation of the iconic Mariners trident . Those who believe in nautical superstitions say the upside down triden...