New Era is the official cap of Major League Baseball and one of the world’s leading sports cap manufacturers. Since 1920, New Era has been one of the world’s leading hat companies, producing a superior quality product that has transcended through more than 90 years of an ever-changing sporting, cultural and fashion environment.

New Eras’s ability to produce and market a superior quality baseball cap has earned it the title of “The Official Cap on the Major League Field.” Did you know that all of your favorite major league baseball players wear New Era 5950 caps on the field during the game?

The caps in the New Eras On-Field Collection feature New Eras Cool Base Performance technology to give you the best performance for the head, while providing the highest quality and comfort, in the most extreme conditions.

New Eras’ Cool Base Performance technology has three main factors:

1) revolutionary wick

2) top drying

3) shrink resistant

What makes New Era caps with Cool Base Performance technology different from other New Era 59Fifty caps?

The main difference is the material. Caps in the On-Field collection with Cool Base Performance technology are made from 100% polyester, while most other New Era caps are made from 100% wool or a 70/30 wool / cotton blend.

Polyester is a synthetic material that is used to make different garments, mostly made from a blend of cotton and polyester. Here are some advantages of using polyester:

1) polyester dries quickly

2) polyester holds its shape better

3) Polyester is more resistant to mold and mildew damage

For major league baseball players and other athletes, it’s easy to understand why New Era makes its Polyester On-Field Collection caps. New Era Polyester Caps with Cool Base Performance Technology are ideal for MLB players and other athletes due to the extreme conditions they play in. Polyester helps:

* Hats dry quickly in hot conditions, where the cap is likely to get drenched in sweat, or in rainy or cold conditions.

* hats do not shrink. New Era caps are mostly tight fitting, so when exposed to sweat or water, wool or cotton caps will shrink.

* Hats retain their shape through games, practice, thrown in lockers, and stored at the bottom of athletic bags.

* lids retain color better.

When making polyester apparel like New Era caps, you should take very fine polyethylene terephthalate (PET) yarns that are woven or knit to provide maximum flexibility.

By combining thin polyester fibers with the quality of the stitching provided by New Era, you will notice that New Era caps made with Cool Base Performance technology have a silky smooth feel.