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.