#SummerHat12 Candidate #5

The last candidate is--now that I think about it--the only hat in the running this year that doesn't have a sports connection. (And I'm not as big a sport fan as all that, honestly.)
But, the cult of Apple is a lifestyle all of its own.
Lynda purchased this hat for me as a souvenir during her trip to the Cupertino mothership campus where Steve Jobs walked on water and the first iPod drive locked up and failed. She was there for work about a year or so ago and bought it in the campus Apple Store. (And while she was there, she saw Apple Board of Directors member, and former Vice President, Al Gore buying an iPad.)

#SummerHat12 Candidate #4

Candidate number 4 is another baseball team, my local National League team, the Cincinnati Reds.
Some people around here are Cleveland Indian fans, but I have always been and always will be a NL fan. So I must go with the Reds. (And besides, I can't be a fan of the two Native American-based teams, can I? The protests I would receive would become unbearable.)

This hat was given to me by my colleague S. Carl, a lifelong Reds fan and yearly season-ticket holder. She bought me this hat specifically to be a candidate in my next election for #SummerHat12. So, here it is.

#SummerHat12 Candidate #3

Candidate number 3 is a 1974 era Atlanta Braves hat.
While I was alive during this time, I was only a toddler when the most important event of this uniform era (Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's career home run record) occurred.
During most of my conscious baseball watching as a kid, I remember this uniform style. These were the Dale Murphy, Bob Horner, Bruce Benedict years.
And when the Braves were national postseason powerhouses year-after-year in the Bobby Cox/Glavine/Smoltz/Maddox/Chipper era, the unis looked like this.

Over time I've owned one of each of these styles. (And subsequently lost each one of them as well.) But the only style I happen to have right now is the Hammerin' Hank '74 version. And I like it . . . even if the bill is curved slightly lop-sided.

#SummerHat12 Candidate #2

Candidate number two was the source of some controversy during the initial filming of the #SummerHat video.And I know that at least one potential voter is withholding an endorsement until I provide some more information on this particular hat to help clarify his position.

So, Tracy . . . this one is for you.

This blue baseball hat with the logo "South Georgia Seniors" is not, as Grace mistakenly suggested a hat that hearkens back to my high school senior days.
Rather, this hat represents a regional golf league that my dad participates in (he was even the treasurer one year). The region is (as you mght guess) southern Georgia. And the members are (again, self-evidently) "seniors" of the _______ citizen variety.

So, I hope this helps clarify things.

#SummerHat12 Candidate #1

Candidate number 1 is the Ohio State baseball style cap.
I actually purchased this hat during a golf afternoon with my old buddy Shirtless.
I'm a sucker for two-toned baseball caps like this.
And the fact that it also featured the old-school mesh-in-the-back style of my youth was the final determining factor in the decision to purchase this hat.

It gets sunny in Ohio during the summer months. And if you've got to shade your eyes, picking a Buckeye hat will always get you in the door.