In April 2006, I showed you pictures of my Red Sox hat. Within the next year, I finally retired the thing and got a new one. Now that new one has come to the end of its run, so I present to you, the "new" hat, from all the same angles you saw of the old one.

The head-on view:


Unlike the old, this one had the socks instead of the B:


From the top/behind: (don't know why I included this shot last time, but here it is again for consistency)


Head-on, close-up:


Yes, this hat also got the front-brim tattering. It took a while, though, and it didn't reach the level the old hat did:


The old familiar grime happened on this hat just as with the old: (only showing one side here as both sides look the same)


I also started getting the same top holes. Actually just one. If I were to give this hat another year I'm sure I'd get all the same holes as the last one:


The bottom view:


This tag held up extremely well! I can't explain it:


Close-up of the logo, which started turning gray (or just getting gray stuff inside the threads):


That back thing got green stuff on it just like the last hat


One more bonus shot of the whole hat:


The old and the new!:
It's funny, with the "new" hat, my friend Amber told me she thought it was a brown hat. That thing was once blue. But as you can see above, the browning of the new hat is nothing compared to how brown the old one--which also started a crisp blue--got.