Which baseball team was /is this?

I know the majors, but the old AAAs ... not so much. This is a Cooperstown Ball Cap Co (now defunct) repop wool hat. Seems like a kid size ... but which team used a red goose? If it was a white duck I'd know it was the Ray-Os but..

 

Does it have to be a team cap?

 

The company didn't make anything else, so....

 

Maybe @BaseballGames can help

 

Now I'm trying to figure out where I put the hat! Just took the picture today so it didn't get far, but....?

 

I got lucky on my first try (supposedly, a 1933 Portland Ducks jersey):

This is from pinterest, so take with a grain of salt:

History: Although Portland's ballclub was mostly known as the Beavers over their century-long history in the Pacific Coast League, they spent a short time sharing a nickname with Oregon's other big university, the Ducks.

 

Thanks for asking us, Sabre, but we're lucky you had good luck in your own search -- we'd probably have had to grind at it a little longer. As you've found, Portland's ball club was "officially" the Beavers through its entire 1906-2010 existence, but was also known as the Ducks (like the city's college teams) from the late '20s into the 1930s (and also as the Rosebuds, like the city's former PCHL team). As you've also easily divined, Cooperstown Ball Cap Co is no longer in business, but for many years they produced caps of minor-league and defunct major-league teams, so Evelyn's cap is of recent manufacture (c1987-2010) and not vintage to the '30s. Sad coincidence that both the Portland PCL team and Cooperstown Cap shut down the same year...

 

It has a dotcom on the label, so it had to be mid-1990s or later. THe Mosiac browser went live circa 1995 and I knew the company was already out of business. That puts a date range on things. This cap and a Boston one I found are both made of wool and both look kid-sized. I can barely handle wool, but they feel bitty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baseball_in_Portland,_Oregon

 

excellent search///!!!!!!!

 

That repro jersey is being sold here, too. Scroll down about 2/3 of the way. https://www.ebbets.com/pages/search-results/portland beavers

@evelyb30

 

Thar she blows! Or quacks.

 

Yes, a narrow date range. From the history of the World Wide Web in Wikipedia article: First, Tim Berners-Lee invented the original browser which was limited to use within CERN. Then "The browser was released outside CERN to other research institutions starting in January 1991, and then to the general public in August 1991." "CERN made the Web protocol and code available royalty free in 1993, enabling its widespread use. After the NCSA released Mosaic later that year, the Web became very popular with thousands of websites springing up in less than a year." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

From this one can guesstimate that the cap dates 1993-1994? If the company was out of business by 1995.

I was working as a librarian at Northwestern University in Chicago starting in late 1989 until 1998. We were technologically cutting edge for the time. I still remember teaching business grad students what a URL was, and how to use it. Fun times!

 

I recall building web pages with a hammer, chisel, and stone tablet. Times have changed for the better!

 

Yes! I learned to make a web page back then, and also with later software. I'm no longer up to date on that, though.

 

Actually 1994-2010, although I can see how you'd interpret it the other way. The company went out in 2010 or thereabouts.

 

Ah, Okay!