So between the swoosh and the horrible era of blackness that was about to come, we had the ice cream caps.
For some reason the Mets decided they needed to have white caps with with uniforms. No.
As civilian-wear, if you wear one of these it can look OK, but paired with the Mets uniform it was terrible.
It was also around this time that the Mets went pinstripe-less. It still doesn’t look right. It also doesn’t look right seeing someone else with a 5.