On Tuesday, New Era released a new baseball cap as part of a new "local market" series for hometown fans. The idea is to use various signs and symbols to represent each team's respective city. You might think: This is a national team hat worth seeing, covered with predictable boring monuments. Not at all! Too basic. No, of course, these hats are designed for DC. This explains the bald eagle, hot dogs out of the background (should that be Ben's?), and the special "1776" badge, obviously at an important moment when...DC does not yet exist.

New Era released the "local market" series, each team has a hat, which includes the "city element in the entire hat." What do you think of the DC-centric version of the Nationals? pic.twitter.com/KUI1LGqHaA

— Matt Weyrich (@ByMattWeyrich) May 25, 2021

At least one date makes sense: In 1901, the Washington Senators played their first season. (For charity, the flat brim can be seen as a reference to early Nats closer to Chad Cordero.) Not only Nats hats, other designs are also dragged onto Twitter because they look like they were cut and paste built with the help of Nats painting. NBC Sports Washington reported that the hats were removed from the New Era website within 24 hours. Too bad, we can't save one! After all, this is local history.

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