How did baseball caps develop in China?
Baseball caps entered China with baseball. The earliest record of Chinese playing baseball is the Chinese engineer Zhan Tianyou. He organized the Chinese baseball team while studying at Yale University in the United States. Overseas Chinese and overseas students who returned from the United States and Japan later brought baseball back to their motherland. In 1895, the baseball team was established in Beijing Huiwen Academy. In 1907, Beijing Huiwen Academy competed with Tongzhou Xiehe Academy. This is the first baseball game in China. In 1913, the Far East Games were launched by China, Japan and the Philippines. China has sent delegations to participate on many occasions.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army carried out baseball games in the anti-Japanese base areas such as northern Shaanxi and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei. In 1952, there was a baseball game in the First All-Army Games of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. In 1959, in the first National Games, baseball was listed as an official event. In September 1975, Japan’s Aichi University baseball team came to China to visit the game. China began international exchanges in baseball.
In 1979, the China Baseball and Softball Association was established, and various provinces and cities have successively established branches. At this time, baseball players really wore baseball caps that symbolized baseball. Since then, baseball caps have also penetrated into the lives of Chinese people, and baseball caps have also been made into different styles.
