Blast from the past: A Nats cap sighting... from 1984?

by Potomac Fan on Sep 1, 2010 4:55 AM EDT

Maybe this is just a coincidence and this has to do with another team, but in the 1984 movie "The Karate Kid", in the scene where Larry Drake and his buddy are drinking beer and putting the bottles on Miyagi's truck by the beach, Larry Drake is wearing a red baseball cap with a curly "W" logo. The logo looks exactly like the current Nats curly "W". Maybe it was a cap representing the old Senators or the Nats but the movie didn't have anything to do with Washington. Maybe there's another team out West with the same colors and logo.

Anyway, I thought it was funny to see. The scene is at about the 1:20 mark of the movie if you happen to have a copy of the DVD on hand. Check it out.

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dude, screen shot!!

by lancerevo on Sep 1, 2010 11:20 AM EDT reply actions

I forgot where I saw this before.

There was a Senators cap that used the Curly W that found its way into the movie. Why? Have no idea.

On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.

by souldrummer on Sep 1, 2010 2:18 PM EDT reply actions

Meh. My high school team's caps were black with the Curly W.

And I graduated in ’04.

Though, cool story: I was in a Modell’s with my cap on one time in ‘03 or so and there was a former Negro League player (don’t remember who) signing autographs. He looked up and said “Hey, a Senators fan!”

"Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
-The Princess Bride

by Jorgath on Sep 1, 2010 6:05 PM EDT reply actions

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/08/a_nats_hat_in_karate_kid.html

by RoscoeNats on Sep 1, 2010 7:00 PM EDT reply actions

RoscoeNats posted the screenshot

or at least in that link. The movie was showing on the Encore movie channels. I hadn’t seen the movie in years so I decided to catch some of it. The scene with the red “W” cap just happened to be showing right about the time that I switched the channel. It just popped out at me as soon as I saw it.

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by Potomac Fan on Sep 2, 2010 12:10 AM EDT reply actions