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Article: Wear 'em If You've Got 'em; The Blossoming World Of the Baseball Cap
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- The Washington Post
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- April 25, 1995
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John Swede thinks his love of baseball caps began when he a was a
Little Leaguer in the early '50s. At 9 years old, he and his
neighborhood knothole gang would catch the trolley to nearby Gilmore
Field where the Hollywood Stars played the great American pastime.
Sometimes, his uncle would drive him into Los Angeles to see the L.A.
Angels play Pacific Coast League rivals. Always, they wore the hats
that back then meant but one thing -- baseball.
"Every Saturday and Sunday, we'd be out there. Hot dogs were 20
cents," says Swede, a California wedding and portrait photographer
(he photographed O.J. and Nicole Simpson's wedding). "The baseball
cap thing started with that and it has just gone ...