Name for the Button on the Top of a Baseball Cap

Grant, did you know that the little button on top of a baseball cap has a name?

Oh, everything’s got a name, Martha. I just don’t know them all. What is it?

Well, this one is either Squatchy or Squacho. Now, this was a term that apparently can’t be traced back any further than the old Sniglets book, which came out in the 1980s.

Yeah, Rich Hall’s stuff.

Yes, yes. A Squacho in that book is defined as the little button on top of a baseball cap. But I’ve been reading up on that, and a lot of professional baseball players use that term jokingly today, and sportscasters as well. And you can find talk online about how many of those baseball players actually remove their squatches because like if you’re a catcher, you don’t want the ball hitting your head and hitting the button additionally. Or if you’re really tall and you’re in the dugout, the dugout roof is pretty low. And so if you’re excited about something and you’re jumping up and down and you’re really tall, your squatchy might hit the ceiling and hurt.

Oh yeah. It could be like a pressing of your own bit of metal right into the top of your head.

Yeah, yeah. So people remove those. That was news to me.

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