Anyone who knows me knows that I always wear hats. While some people are obsessed with shoes or concert t-shirts, for me it has always been hats. Especially baseball caps.

I am always on the look out for a new hat. My newest hat, purchased for my upcoming trip at the beginning of next month to Pittsburgh, is this classic ’47 Brand Pirates hat (pictured below).

I am for the most part not a brand-loyal kind of guy. But when it comes to hats, I almost exclusively purchase ’47 Brand hats these days. The quality is always good, and the hats just seem to fit my style. I use the term “style” loosely of course.

I am a casual guy. I like jeans and baseball caps and wear them everyday to work, and while I am at work. Walk into my office any working day of the week and you will find me sitting in a semi-professional office wearing a baseball cap in front of two computer screens. Unprofessional? Probably. But I am comfortable and confident and don’t really care what people think. I am happy.

I currently wear hats for a variety of different baseball clubs: Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Spokane Indians, the Cedar Rapids Kernels, the St. Paul Saints, and now the Pittsburgh Pirates. They are all teams that I have seen (or will have soon seen) play in person in their home stadiums. (In my defense, I do not have hats for the Houston Astros, The Chicago White Sox, the Kansas City Royals, the Nashville Sounds, the Memphis Red Birds, the Springfield Cardinals, or the Iowa Cubs. I also have no Minnesota Town Ball team hats.)

Any rational person would think that the number of baseball caps I currently own and wear is more than enough for one person. But about hats– along with baseball, beer, and books– I am anything but rational.