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"Vulgar" Texas Rangers ball cap pulled from sale

Ruben Bolling
Mar 13, 2025
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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.

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