Round four was another straight re-order. Mind you, this was in the middle of a heat wave. They opened special just for the sale, and people lined up the night before to get their hands on one. Citi Field hopped on board and brought in an additional 576 for an in-person sale at their team store. Those arrived in March of 2016, and those 800 were gone again in just seconds.įor round three, we went HEAVY and produced 3,000. This time the release date was August 7th 2016, and I thought for sure this batch would last a while. How many people buy winter beanies in the Spring? Apparently, plenty of people. Thinking it may have just been a fluke since the Mets were just in the World Series and it was the holiday season, I just did a straight re-order for the spring. They ended up going for hundreds of dollars on eBay, and still do. As soon as we opened the doors, those were gone, too. The other 150 were held back for our warehouse sale that holiday season. Eight hundred were produced, and 650 of them sold online in a matter of seconds. It was a total crap shoot on how many to order. The first batch of Home Run Apple Beanies dropped in November 2015. After The 7 Line deal was finalized with New Era, and I could start making officially licensed Mets caps, we got to work. It was pretty wild looking, but any Mets fan instantly knew what it was. A simple concept that probably took less than an hour to design. I photoshopped some elements together, slapped on a green pom to represent the leaf, wrote HOME RUN across the cuff, and it was done. I designed the beanie about a year before our deal with New Era went through in 2014. If there's another one out there that tops the charts, we haven't heard about it yet.īefore we get to the details of the latest release, I just wanted to give some background to how this product came out, and the unexpected success it has had. The Home Run Apple Beanie might be the most popular winter cap in the history of Major League Baseball. That's really not to brag, but it's pretty crazy that a fun photoshop 10 years ago turned in to such a hit. Thank you for helping make this our best selling product of all time! There's a little bit of reading here, but if you're in to this product as much are we, it might be of interest. After 3 years off, they're back! Version 4 of the Home Run Apple beanie is on deck!
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