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What's that you got on your head?

This card came in yet another trade with Cards on Cards . It features those abominations that Major League Baseball made all-stars wear on their heads this past season. I am with everyone who hates these things. I hope they never appear again and wish like hell they were never captured on baseball cards. But here we are and I have this card of Zack Greinke looking goofy forever. I'm guessing some folks don't like these caps because they either don't remember or didn't grow up with the multi-tone caps from the 1970s and 1980s. Those caps used to be a regular fact of baseball life, like stirrups, sansabelt baseball pants and bullpen carts (which also sometimes wore a cap). Those caps didn't really bother me then. So I'm wondering why they bothered me so much when I saw them during All-Star festivities. I think one of the reasons is because teams that never featured those kinds of caps, like the Dodgers, were suddenly wearing them. The other reason onl...