The cap was the hanging-out underwear of the 1930s
12/19/06 00:33 PersonalGeneral Yammering
I give you Sunny Jim Bottomley.
Jim, as pictured on his R311 card (which I just acquired) had a problem with his cap. It's kind of endearing, actually, as the cap is always tilted off to one side. Here's his 1929 Kashin:
Yup. Off to his left just enough. It's a thing with Sunny Jim, always wearing his cap tilted off to the left.
Bottomley played when my grandfather was a boy, the same grandfather that taught me that it was disrespecting the game to ever set foot on a ballfield in shorts, or without a proper cap. If a player had his cap on backwards, my grandfather (who I called "Pal" or "Willie", even though his name was Joe) would lose his mind. He also hated long hair and earrings on men, tight jeans, and short skirts. I'm pretty sure that if he were alive today, he'd flip his lid if he saw the kids wearing the hanging-down baggy jeans and the hanging-out boxer shorts, with the pant legs dragging behind them as they walk.
But then I realized something.
The frickin' hat thing is a 1930s EPIDEMIC.
The hat thing is the hanging-out underwear of the 1930s.
Check out Kiki Cuyler. His hat's so messed up, it looks like he's wearing a wash rag on his head.
And Charlie Gehringer? Yup. Tilted to the left, yo.
Lefty Gomez? Dresses left.
It goes on and on and on and on and on.
And it doesn't start in the 30s, either. It goes way back to the turn of the century.
These guys were THUGS, man. THUGS. Even Fred Clarke. FRED CLARKE! Wearing his underwear, hanging out the back, with all that jewelry and those earrings and stuff.
What's next? Did Connie Mack have tattoos? Did Rube Waddell travel around with a posse?
Umm, actually Rube DID travel around with a posse.
Sometimes it takes something stupid to remind me that the world really hasn't changed ALL that much.
They even had plastic Devo hair in the 30s.
Jim, as pictured on his R311 card (which I just acquired) had a problem with his cap. It's kind of endearing, actually, as the cap is always tilted off to one side. Here's his 1929 Kashin:
Yup. Off to his left just enough. It's a thing with Sunny Jim, always wearing his cap tilted off to the left.
Bottomley played when my grandfather was a boy, the same grandfather that taught me that it was disrespecting the game to ever set foot on a ballfield in shorts, or without a proper cap. If a player had his cap on backwards, my grandfather (who I called "Pal" or "Willie", even though his name was Joe) would lose his mind. He also hated long hair and earrings on men, tight jeans, and short skirts. I'm pretty sure that if he were alive today, he'd flip his lid if he saw the kids wearing the hanging-down baggy jeans and the hanging-out boxer shorts, with the pant legs dragging behind them as they walk.
But then I realized something.
The frickin' hat thing is a 1930s EPIDEMIC.
The hat thing is the hanging-out underwear of the 1930s.
Check out Kiki Cuyler. His hat's so messed up, it looks like he's wearing a wash rag on his head.
And Charlie Gehringer? Yup. Tilted to the left, yo.
Lefty Gomez? Dresses left.
It goes on and on and on and on and on.
And it doesn't start in the 30s, either. It goes way back to the turn of the century.
These guys were THUGS, man. THUGS. Even Fred Clarke. FRED CLARKE! Wearing his underwear, hanging out the back, with all that jewelry and those earrings and stuff.
What's next? Did Connie Mack have tattoos? Did Rube Waddell travel around with a posse?
Umm, actually Rube DID travel around with a posse.
Sometimes it takes something stupid to remind me that the world really hasn't changed ALL that much.
They even had plastic Devo hair in the 30s.
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