I originally did a cap design, too — just the basic royal blue hat with a very slight black shadow on the “NY” — but Charlie ended up messing with that.
Continuing a breakdown of The Greatest Article of All Time, that quote above is from Bob Halfacre, the bringer of the black, on caps.
Imagine that, a world without hybrids. Sure we’d have a cluttered cap with unnecessary dropshadow…and Charlie Samuels would have likely brought the all-black cap into this world eventually….but there was a shot at no hybrids.
I’ve poked around the internet and don’t see anything similar to what was described (I didn’t look that long and maybe one of you photoshoppers could do something with this one, darken the blue and switch the NY and shadow).
Halfacre is so fascinating to me. He’s somehow at the middle of the blame, but somehow the one who saved the Mets from even greater disaster.
As we’ll discuss tomorrow…what horrors could have happened if they had gone for a total re-design. Look at the Angels..big difference between this and this.
You know as much as I dislike all the hybrids and different uni combinations the Mets display, I have to be honest here. If they had gone with the drop shadow look on the hat I would be 99 percent sure I would be screaming about it on here today. Having said that I would also like to admit that if the Mets decided to discard the black jersey pinless jersey and all hybrid hats and went to the standard two uniforms, with blue hats, I would be fine with the drop shadow on the name. From a distance it’s hardly noticable anyway.