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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 43116, member: 44&quot;]Wonder if that is R.B. or B.B. Found pics of baseball teams from this period with an organization name on the front of their jerseys followed by initials of the town.</p><p>Example: Modern Woodmen of America of Twin Rivers, Wisconsin.</p><p><br /></p><p>MWA</p><p>T. R.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style of the caps they are wearing might be called the &quot;Chicago cap.&quot; According to the following website, these caps had horizontal stripes and solid colored bills. Seems they were popular in the big leagues in the late 1880s. By 1900 only a few clubs wore them. As this pic is not of a big league club, no doubt these caps were probably dated by the time these boys got a hold of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The &#039;Chicago Cap&#039; (No. 5) was the same shape as the &#039;Parti-Colored Cap,&#039; but featured horizontal (rather than vertical) stripes and a solid-colored bill. The style was one of the most popular among big league clubs of the late 1880s, but by the turn of the century only a few clubs were still donning caps of this type.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>#5 cap in the picture of the &quot;Spalding Pitches Caps&quot; about 1/3 of way down the page:</p><p><a href="http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/caps.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/caps.htm" rel="nofollow">http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/caps.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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