Baseball cap
I am probably a typical American in that I wear a baseball cap to protect my eyes and face from the sun. And when it rains, the cap's visor keeps my eyes dry and the view clear.
I looked up the origins of the baseball cap. I had always assumed that it was borrowed from cricket of the 1800s, a game that is popular around the world in the British Commonwealth and even was played in the former British colony of America. But an article by BaggyCap writes that it actually is the other way around. Although cricketers wore various hats, they did not wear the modern eight-panel baggy ball cap with a peak until the Americans invented it. Cricketers loved the functionality of the American baseball cap so much that they borrowed it for cricket.
"Most people justifiably associate the Baggy Cap with the game of cricket...which was played all around the world in the 1800s. There is however no doubt that from the historical perspective at least...this is a commonly held fallacy and a very inaccurate assumption because there is no doubt the origins of the Baggy Cap actually originate from the game of Baseball! … Following Peck & Snyders manufacturing of the Boston style baseball cap … this style of cap quickly became cricket’s preferred style of headwear...and as you can see there are many photos and depictions of cricketers wearing a baggy styled Boston Cap in the mid to late 1800s in the US, Canada and England." — Source: BaggyCap.com
Note: The rim of the cap's visor in the frame above is approximately 2 inches long.
Baseball cap
I am probably a typical American in that I wear a baseball cap to protect my eyes and face from the sun. And when it rains, the cap's visor keeps my eyes dry and the view clear.
I looked up the origins of the baseball cap. I had always assumed that it was borrowed from cricket of the 1800s, a game that is popular around the world in the British Commonwealth and even was played in the former British colony of America. But an article by BaggyCap writes that it actually is the other way around. Although cricketers wore various hats, they did not wear the modern eight-panel baggy ball cap with a peak until the Americans invented it. Cricketers loved the functionality of the American baseball cap so much that they borrowed it for cricket.
"Most people justifiably associate the Baggy Cap with the game of cricket...which was played all around the world in the 1800s. There is however no doubt that from the historical perspective at least...this is a commonly held fallacy and a very inaccurate assumption because there is no doubt the origins of the Baggy Cap actually originate from the game of Baseball! … Following Peck & Snyders manufacturing of the Boston style baseball cap … this style of cap quickly became cricket’s preferred style of headwear...and as you can see there are many photos and depictions of cricketers wearing a baggy styled Boston Cap in the mid to late 1800s in the US, Canada and England." — Source: BaggyCap.com
Note: The rim of the cap's visor in the frame above is approximately 2 inches long.