Missives of a Baseball Milquetoast

After posting on this blog for 15 years, opportunities to celebrate "firsts" are increasingly scarce, but while searching back through the archives to confirm this week's Frisco RoughRiders cap place as the third variant featured here for the team, I am proud to say that this particular one is my first-ever Marvel's Defenders of the Diamond design to be a Fresh Fitted Friday selection. The timing here is also fitting as we enter Presidents' Day Weekend, and of course I have to shout out the  2021 Fredericksburg Nationals "George" Alt Cap ,  which has the distinction of being my first-ever Presidents' Day post, and, just like presidential cycles, goes, was published four years ago around this time. While the minor league baseball club known as the Frisco RoughRiders employs a PascalCase script for their team name, their namesake was the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry regiment that went by the Sentence case styled "Rough Riders" and was...

This week's National Day theme is of the three-day variety as we are about to embark upon Presidents' Day Weekend! To celebrate this much appreciated respite from the routine grind, I cherry-picked a Fredericksburg Nationals "George" alternate cap to celebrate the first President of the United States. I obtained this hat up from Hat Club in early 2021 and to me, this design is a fantastic way to tie American folklore into a baseball cap logo. I cannot tell a lie: I prefer caps that are made in the U.S.A. If there's ever a good time for a red, white and blue batterman, it's Presidents' Day One of the first things schoolchildren in the US are taught about George Washington is the Cherry Tree Myth and I only now  just learned from this article  that the whole story was fabricated so they could sell more books about the President. When students are learning about irony in later grades, this exact scenario should be highlighted as a key example. Well, back to ...