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"Vulgar" Texas Rangers ball cap pulled from sale [1]
['Ruben Bolling']
Date: 2025-03-13
When baseball hat company New Era released a new line of "Overlap" hats, bearing a Major League Baseball team's logo overlapping with its home city/state, it must have thought it had a cute innovation in the baseball apparrel field. What they didn't realize is that the letter in the logo over a city or state name would create a new, unintended word.
And the Texas Rangers' Overlap hat created the Spanish word for "tits."
How do you know nobody at New Era speaks Spanish?the "TETAS" hat is a good example.www.sbnation.com/mlb/2025/3/1… — 🦉 Werewolves Ranchero 🦉 (@pseudonic.bsky.social) 2025-03-10T19:29:10.255Z
According to an article in The Athletic by Brooks Peck, New Era quickly pulled the Rangers hats from sale. Which probably makes the few that were sold before the mishap was discovered valuable collectors' items.
But other questionable Overlap hats were still available until just hours ago.
Following the initial removal of a New Era Rangers hat from MLB's official online store earlier in the week, two more hats from the Overlap line have also been pulled.Sorry, AsHos and AnAels fans. — The Athletic (@theathletic.bsky.social) 2025-03-12T18:59:29.573Z
That probably does it for the vulgarities and near-vulgarities among the MLB hats. But more wholesome unintended associations are still out there.
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