I have a fascination with baseball caps that's similar to the stereotypical woman's fascination for shoes. I already have plenty of baseball caps, but if I see one that I really like I feel a strong urge to get it. I'm able to keep my impulses in check for the most part. However, when I was recently back in Minnesota for my grandmother's funeral, I bought a red Twins cap with the old TC (Twin Cities) logo... And I have to say, now that I'm back in Amsterdam and wearing it from day to day, I'm really liking it.

I think real Major League Baseball caps are the ultimate in cap design. The Twins' TC logo is a significant improvement (and also more original) than their "Underlined M" caps of the late 1980s and 1990s. But I have to admit that I'm partial to this cap's design because I'm also partial to the team it represents.

I was considering this recently, trying to figure out what the best Major League Baseball caps are -- and I think  that my primary criteria for consideration are color, cleanness, and timelessness (i.e. a cap gets major design points if it's stuck with the same basic design for like 100 years). So with that in mind, here are some of the top candidates (outside of my new Twins cap), listed in no particular order:

These picks have absolutely nothing to do with the teams that wear these caps (for instance, I really don't like the Yankees much at all, as a team, and I would never want to wear one of their caps personally -- but I can't deny the fact that their caps are some of the best). Purely based on cap design, I'd have to say that the red St. Louis Cardinals cap (bottom left) is the best. But what do you think? How do these caps rate, in your opinion? Or which other caps do you believe might merit consideration? Does anyone else notice this sort of thing, or am I just weird in this way?