padres 72 mystery fitted baseball cap wide panel chevron

UNIWATCH happens to be one of our favorite blogs for all things related to sports uniforms and design. They recently ran a post about an rare San Diego Padres baseball cap that was worn during the ‘72 season. The twist is the wide-spanning Yellow panel on the front panels. Several readers from the era commented on the rare style, sparking a full on historical mystery. Hardcore Padres fan Robert Walker offered: “That cap was only used in ’72, only on Sundays, and (from what I have found) only for home games.” UNIWATCH is currently on a fact finding mission to confirm the statement. While you are waiting take a look a some classic images from a Padres 1972 program.

photos: Richard Craig

Here’s a rare look into a JONATHAN DA LYNN sample that was recently given away to one lucky JDL twitter follower. This is a Green fitted version of the popular “Hooah” logo that is on this current season’s Hooah Camo snapback. This cap features a leather bill with only 2 total pieces in existence.

NEW BALANCE and 686 partner up to bring the NB686 Super Nova Collection. This special collaboration package consists of a New Era 59Fifty fitted cap that shares the same Orange-Blue color scheme as the other contents of the set; a MT580 shoe, NB686 snowboarding boot, and jacket. The Orange based cap features the 686 logo on the front left panel and the New Balance logo on the front right panel, both in Blue, topped off with matching White eyelets and New Era flag. The underbill of the cap features the same speckled pattern that can be found on the MT580 shoe. This box set is extremely limited to 20 pieces.

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new era blank deadstock 59fifty cap

This post is hardly for the majority. But for the discriminating few collectors out there, this is a pure gold. Pictured here is a genuine blank NEW ERA fitted baseball cap with a Grey under bill. Before these were phased out of production in the Ninties, you could find these on the regular - perfect blank canvases for custom embroidery. What makes these two particularly interesting are a few minor details, like the vintage tapes and tags on the interior. One lacks the NE flag logo hit on the side - a tell tale sign of an older deadstock cap. Sometimes you want to step out in something super clean and still make a statement.

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HIGH SNOBIETY makes it’s New Era collaboration debut with the New Era Empire fitted cap. Shooting for something different than the typical 59Fifty, High Snobiety opted to use the shorter brimmed Empire cap. Coincidently, this also marks the debut of the Empire cap outside of Japan, with more styles soon to follow.

The hat itself made it’s debut at the BREAD AND BUTTER BERLIN event earlier this month, given out to friends and family. The hat itself is limited to 144 pieces and over the next few weeks will be given out to a limited amount of lucky High Snobiety readers. The Empire fitted takes the picnic theme with a Blue/White checkerboard pattern as well as “THF BBB 2009″ embroidered on back (THF is airport code for TEMPELHOF, the site of BBB this year).

VIA: HIGH SNOBIETY

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Shown above is what we believe is an unreleased sample FRANK 151 “F” New Era 59Fifty fitted cap. The picture was taken at the Hall of Fame wall at 106th and Park Ave in East Harlem during its annual community celebration which was held last weekend. The cap itself appears to be Tan/Beige with the Black Frank logo. Fingers crossed, hopefully this piece will be released to the general public in the future. Time will tell.

via: MARTHA COOPER x MASHKULTURE

ACAPULCO GOLD teams up with AFRA in this New Era 59Fifty fitted cap in honor of Afra’s upcoming LP to be released later this summer. These fitteds feature the Incredible Beatbox Band bear logo on the front as well as a side logo graphic opposite the New Era flag. These 59Fiftys are produced in 3 colorways, although they are currently unreleased.

via: HIGH SNOBIETY

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686, manufacturer of snowboard technical outerwear, shows off this custom collab with New Era. It features a 59Fifty fitted cap built right into the collar with a size sticker of 20 1/8!!! Hopefully this is a sign of things to come or just one of those sample grails i’ll never get…

via: the HUNDREDS

Here’s some behind the scene info that FLYING COFFIN was kind enough to share with the world. Shown above is a cancelled sample 59Fifty fitted, victim to low interest from the shops that carry FC and production costs. Maybe we’ll see a re-up or remix in the future?

via Flying Coffin

We respect our history and we ♥ vintage gear. When franchises migrate from city to city, it kicks up plenty of dust and bad blood. The Dodgers may call LA home, but the pride remains strong in BK. ROBERT EDWARDS AUCTION recently sold a historic peace of baseball memrobilia. This Brooklyn Dodgers professional model cap is attributed to Dodgers’ team captain and Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese during the 1955 World Championship season. The Blue wool cap features an embroidered white “B” on the front and a white button along the top. A “McAuliffe” label appears along the back of the interior headband, as does a stamp reading “Pro KM Cap.” The cap displays light-to-moderate wear throughout including soiling along the interior headband. The cap’s documented history strongly supports its identification as a Brooklyn Dodgers cap worn by Pee Wee Reese in 1955 and at the very least was graded such by Mears. LOA from Dave Bushing & Troy Kinunen/MEARS as an authentic 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers cap. At the auction close this cap sold for $1,044.00. One more image and DJ CLARK KENT’s TOP 5 Brooklyn tracks after the jump. GO BROOKLYN!

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