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There was a time when one wouldn't have dreamt of going to a ball game without a straw boater planted on one's brain box and, if this repro advertisement is to be believed, one risked being thought of as bland if one didn't sport up that boater with a Wick fancy adjustable hat band. Furthermore, what is Sigmund Freud (second from right, first row) doing at a baseball game?

Freud was a crank:

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The genuine articles:

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