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Article: Far From Home Plate, Baseball Caps Take Over - New York Times
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- The New York Times
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- July 10, 1991
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As baseball's All-Star break winds up today, let us put on our thinking caps, with the bills worn frontward, backward or off to the side, rapper style. Let us ponder why 7 out of 10 hats made in this country are baseball caps. Why everyone from football and basketball coaches to movie stars and babies wear them. And why the trend shows no sign of peaking. Baseball intellectuals will give you a metaphysical answer. But before talking about the cap, they must talk about the game. For them, a baseball cap, any baseball cap, is a magical object invested with unspoken powers because of its link to the mythic activity called baseball. Dr. Stuart Ewen, a professor of media studies at City ...
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