Saw this on cnnsi.com today and had to comment on it. For some reason, I don’t like baseball caps that stick up high like the photo above. Some people like it like that, I don’t. It just looks too damn big. I also don’t like caps that look like they are balanced on top of the head and show too much forehead. The cap should cover most of the forehead. And the brim of the cap needs to have a strong curve. I like the “snug cap look” like the way Eric Gagne wears his:

As for me, I love to wear baseball caps, but it has been difficult to find any that fit good. It’s much easier to find the “tall and proud” type that Eric Karros sports below.

But last year I found a brand that fits me pretty good. I have several caps now: Dodgers, Astros (hey, it’s the closest MLB team to me), Padres (the friar is too cool), and Angels. They are all old-style replica caps. The Astros is from 1965, Padres from 1969, and Angels from 1971.

Here’s a cap sported by Raul Mondesi that has it all: it’s too tall, sits too high on his forehead, and doesn’t have enough curve:

And Drysdale’s cap is just plain weird:

Jeff Weaver’s cap is a difficult one. He’s got a good curve of the brim, it’s pulled down over the forehead to give the nice “shadowed eyes” look, but the top of the cap has a strange wrinkled look. Not unpleasant, a little refreshing actually:

And finally, Derek Lowe wore his cap the “correct” way during the playoffs this year: