If your baseball cap isn't suitable for machine washing, try cleaning it by hand instead. Keep in mind that it's still important to check the care tag before cleaning, says Sokolowski.

How to Hand Wash a Baseball Cap Before washing your baseball cap, James Joun, co-founder and chief operating officer of Rinse, says to always check the label for care instructions.

THE BALL CAP THROUGH THE YEARS 1849: The New York Knickerbockers wore the first baseball caps, which were straw hats. A few years later, the team switched to a cap made of merino that featured a ...

How to clean a really dirty baseball cap If your cap looks like it slid into home plate, you'll want to pretreat any dirt or sweat stains before soaking with a stain remover like OxiClean. Make a ...

If you swear by a baseball cap for almost every outing, there's a good chance it gets dirty quickly. Between shielding you from the sun and serving as a fashion accessory day in and day out, your ...

Ground zero for the cap revolution: the 1996 World Series, according to Todd Radom, author of “Winning Ugly: A Visual History of Baseball’s Most Unique Uniforms.” ...

But it wasn’t until 1947 that New Era, a haberdashery company in New York, created the 59Fifty, or what is now the standard structured baseball cap. And it took more than 30 years for it to make ...