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When I played college baseball in New England in the late 1960s, our team wore batting helmets in the field my senior year. No caps that season. I seem to remember that some other teams did that, too.
Frankly, I preferred the helmet to the cap regardless of the safety issue, even while pitching. That was almost 40 years ago, but as I remember there was some noise that helmets were soon going to take over for caps entirely. (In those days, the helmets had no ear guards.)
Of course, the conventional wisdom then was also that because a few large companies had become so big and powerful, they would soon run everything. Therefore, a graduate had no chance trying to start his own business and so should accept the fact that he would be working for GM, Exxon, IBM, AT&T, US Steel, etc.
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