With the 2026 MLB regular season slowly winding down, I cannot help but reflect on all the fun games I have been to thus far. While it has worked out that I have already been to eight games at CitiField, my totals at Yankee Stadium will only reach half that amount tomorrow as I plan to see the Toronto Blue Jays during their second and final scheduled series in the Bronx this year.
I always enjoy seeing the Jays, and this upcoming game is could get spicy because I am rolling in with a crew comprised of two Toronto fans and one Boston Red Sox fan. I caught the Red Sox last season on one of their trips to New York in 2025, but the only Jays game I was able to get to that year was rained out, so considering all this, tomorrow will be extra special.
A fair amount of consideration goes into the selection of the caps I wear to ball games, but as you might imagine, the esoteric logos of former Mets and Yankees affiliates do not exactly inspire their fans in New York to stop me in my tracks to inquire about them. But that is okay because I'm wearing the hat for myself, not them!
While I have not decided on the exact cap that I will wear tomorrow, the length of time since I have seen the Jays play, coupled with the team celebrating their 50th season this year, makes now the perfect time to highlight my recent pickup of the now-defunct Medicine Hat Blue Jays from Anthem Shop, which is the best place to go if you are hunting for a Canuck-centric cap.
The Blue Jays are known for maintaining strong relationships within their farm system, which is evidenced by many of their partnerships spanning multiple decades at each of the levels in the minors. The cities with the longest tenures of hosting Jays affiliates are Syracuse and Dunedin; however, it's hard to overlook their longtime Pioneer League affiliate in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
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The current iteration of the Pioneer League has it positioned as an independent partner league of MLB since 2021, but before then it was largely known as a rookie-level league where future big leaguers like the Baby Jays in Medicine Hat got their first taste of professional ball. |
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This is the first cap I have ever bought from a Canadian shop, so I wonder if that white tag might be something unique to stores located in our friendly neighbor to the north. |
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The murdered-out city initials on the front logo have a strong, yet sleek partner in this black-and-white batterman logo in the cap's rear. |
As much as I would love to mix things up, wearing a minor league cap related to a visiting team at a New York ballpark might be out of my comfort zone unless, of course, we were discussing a San Francisco Giants farm club! As luck would have it, the Giants’ sole trip to CitiField this year happens in a few weeks, so I have some time to think about the cap I will be wearing!
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