CHICAGO (WLS) -- Palatine resident Mark Lackinger has been named the 2018 Lids Ultimate Hat Collector in recognition of his massive baseball cap collection that was started more than a decade ago.

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The Major League Baseball playoffs are underway, and it’s time to get your ball cap on. In nearly two centuries, the baseball cap has seen a variety of shapes, sizes and designs. It used to be that ...

New Era, official cap supplier of Major League Baseball, released a line of “Local Market” caps Tuesday with city-specific designs for every club, including area codes and images of local landmarks ...

New Era said it worked to celebrate the stories and traditions of all 30 MLB teams with team-specific design elements and color choices. “The goal was for each team to create official headwear that ...

Newly released baseball caps for all 30 Major League Baseball teams are getting such a bad reputation that three teams have been forced to pull their caps off the market completely. The Overlap ...

Tim Arzaga has been collecting hats since 2006. By his own admission, it’s a chore to take inventory. It's easy to see why. “At last count, I have over 1,000 hats. Of Padres alone, currently between ...

If you're online as often as I am, you've probably already seen tweets about the New Era State Park cap collection making the rounds. The collection features a hat for most Major League Baseball teams ...

Like most things that I take seriously in life, my novelty-baseball-cap collection started out as a joke. In 2019, a friend and I went to see the Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s 1978 play, ...