My lady and I had a good time at the Whidbey Island Highland Games last Saturday. If you missed the event, that’s your loss.

The sun was out, so the kid wore one of his baseball caps to cut down on the glare as I was shooting pictures and also to keep the nose from getting cooked.

A bit of background information on my baseball cap collection, another of my “vices” along with exotic-skin cowboy boots.

A couple of years ago I got the Star Struck catalog in the mail. Star Struck is an athletic supply outfit where you can purchase baseball, basketball and football hats and jerseys from both college and professional teams.

Baseball caps from the American and National leagues are not uncommon items, you can buy them just about everywhere, but the cool thing about Star Struck is you can purchase minor league caps.

On the Seattle Mariners page for example caps from the Tacoma Rainiers, San Antonio Missions, Inland Empire 66ers, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the Everett Aquasox, in addition to the “parent” team are available.

Naturally I ordered some of the more obscure ones like the Auburn Doubledays (short class A Toronto), and the Montgomery Biscuits (class AA Tampa Bay). At the Highland Games, I wore my Augusta Greenjackets cap, a (class A San Francisco) team from Georgia. The cap is green with a purple bill, and has an embroidered yellow bumble bee holding a baseball bat standing next to a purple block letter A.

The guy at the front gate said he liked it and I told him it was from a minor league team.

Later in the day I felt someone grab my arm as I was passing through the crowd and there stood an Army sergeant first-class wearing a pair of kilts. Figuring I was a little old to be recruited, I deduced something else was on his mind. Sure enough, it was the hat. He wanted to know where I’d gotten it as before being deployed to Fort Lewis, he’d been stationed in Augusta and had attended a number of Greenjackets games. Small world!

Waterfowl hunter seeks blind

Last week I wrote about the trials getting all my decoys moved to Oak Harbor, but I ran out of column space. Too wordy or something. At any rate, if anyone is interested in the new kid on the block becoming a member of their hunting party just let me know. I have no idea where the hot spots are, but I can contribute decoys, calls and blind-making materials.

Sports editor Tim Adams may be reached at (360) 675-6611 or email to sports@whidbeynewstimes.com