Baseball cap

If the United States has a national hat, it is surely the baseball cap. Even golfers, tennis players, and football players wear them, either when playing or while standing on the sidelines. Mail carriers, truck drivers, and Boy Scouts wear them, too. It took many years for baseball players to settle on the style of cap so familiar today.
The first baseball team, the Knickerbockers, wore straw hats, players wore all sorts of hats boating caps, jockey caps, even bicycling hats. a pillbox-style hat with a flat top and a short visor became popular. This was the Chicago style cap. the Brooklyn Excelsiors wore a cap that's a forerunner of todays rounded crown, large visor caps.
This Brooklyn style had evolved from a Boston style, and it caught on about. It had a tight crown and a button on top, placed toward the front. The modern cap arrived, when latex rubber replaced buckram coarse cotton as the stiffening material inside the visor. Now the visors could be longer. As for wearing baseball caps backwards Catchers wore their caps backward so the visor didnt interfere with their protective mask. But it may have been outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. of the Seattle Mariners who first got children to turn their caps around, too.