Baseball is about more than just wins and losses, double plays and player salaries. Sure the fundamental baseball discussions are what you’ll hear the most when you’re sitting at your local ballpark, but deep down fans care about the more superficial things, such as logo arrangement, cap design and team colors. Here we’ll discuss the cap insignia of three National League East teams, the New York Mets, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Washington Nationals.

New York Mets
If you get New York Mets MLB tickets, you probably wear a baseball cap to the game. Chances are the insignia on your ball cap is the team’s go-to design, an inter-crossed NY arrangement, where the N is directly above the Y. The Mets have been using the NY logo on their hats since the team was established in 1962, and it hasn’t changed much since the early days of the team.

The NY arrangement is somewhat of a hack job on the New York Yankees logo, as the Yankees had been using the inter-crossed NY, with the N directly above the Y since 1916. The choice to piggy-back on the Yankees logo design doesn’t earn any points for originality, but fortunately they made a deliberate move to change up the font for the letters. Whereas the Yankees employ odd angles in their NY, the Mets add their own touch with some odd, rarely-seen-in-the-wild end curls. It seems as though the Mets used a basic, solid NY and then placed curls at the apex and corners of all the lines. The V part of the letter Y is also curved outward until it terminates with the curl facing back in on its own stem. The letters are usually solid orange amid a blue background.

Philadelphia Phillies
There’s been a professional baseball team in Philadelphia since 1883, so this team has gone through a number of uniform designs and logo changes over the years. Beginning in the 1970s the Phillies began settling on the shape of the P that you’ll see at the ballpark today. Single letter designs are not uncommon in baseball, but the Phillies have attempted to make their letter unique by designing it somewhat cartoonish and oblong.

The P is notable for a few trademarks, the first of which is the hyper-extended portion of the loop, which curls out to the left of the stem of the P. The curl is unusually fat, which helps to bring balance to the overall look of the letter. The bottom of the stem is weighed down by a bulge that shifts to the right as well, helping with the balance and adding to a general up-and-to-the-right direction of the image. The P is solid white against a bright red backdrop.

Washington Nationals
If you’ve been getting Washington Nationals tickets online, you probably saved more than enough money to buy a ball cap. The Nationals, having only been located in Washington D.C. since 2005, have had one basic cap insignia, a white, stylized W in front of a red field. The W looks as though it were written by the same person who drew the Atlanta Braves’ A, as it’s looping and naturally curvy, like a signature (think Walt Disney). The W begins with a curl that looks like a musical note and then goes through symmetrical, evenly swirled loops and finishes cleanly at the crest of the far right of the W. Overall the insignia is handsome and aesthetically pleasing- simple- yet you’d need more than a ruler and graph paper to duplicate it on your own.

This article about MLB tickets was written by Brent Warnken in association with StubHub, a leader in the sports tickets, concert tickets, theatre tickets and special events tickets market.

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