How Many Different Types of Baseball Caps Did Magnum Wear?

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IslandHopper · #1 Post by **IslandHopper** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:15 pm

During the series, Magnum, wore several types of baseball type caps. Specifically, what caps were they?

#2 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:42 pm

Well let's see, there was the "Da Nang" cap, the "Tigers" cap, the away "Tigers" cap (worn only once), the "Al's Automotive and Muffler Shop" cap, the "Camouflage" cap, and the "plain grey" cap (worn only once). I think that covers it. Lord help me for knowing all of this.

Great, now I've got my kids Caps For Sale book stuck in my head.....

"caps....caps for sale.....50 cents a cap"

Vanity · #3 Post by **Vanity** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:54 pm

There's also the plain light blue cap he wears in "The-Love-for-Sale Boat" (unless, James, this is the one you mean). It may be gray...guess it depends on the TV set

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#4 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:12 pm

Yeah, Vanity, the one from The Love-For-Sale Boat. It's looks grey to me, but it could be a light-blue, I guess.

IslandHopper · #5 Post by **IslandHopper** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:12 am

Thanks James & Vanity. In the episode "Squeeze Play" (Season 4), I think Magnum wore a red University of Southern California hat (either SC or USC). I think Tom Selleck actually had a basketball scholarship to play at USC.

burroughsmvp · #6 Post by **burroughsmvp** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:46 pm

Here are the caps I have listed in my old notes:
Tigers
VMO2
Camouflage
Al's Muffler
Gray Adjustable in #96
Another Gray Adjustable in 128 and 144 (could be the same cap as 96)
Get Wet
White Painters Cap
Tan Painters Cap
Orange D Tigers
USC Trojans

That doesn't count the Driving Cap in 126 or the Hard Hat in 54

SelleckLover · #7 Post by **SelleckLover** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:22 pm

This post is for IslandHopper:

According to Tom Selleck's Biography Channel video, he did not attend USC on a basketball scholarship. He first went to LA Valley Junior College and transferred to USC later on. He did play on the USC basketball team, but quit college in his senior year to sign with 20th Century Fox as a contract actor. He says he was exposed to acting while at USC, by being chosen to be in a Pepsi commercial, not because of his acting ability, but because he could stuff a basketball with both hands!

Just thought I'd share!

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IslandHopper · #8 Post by **IslandHopper** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:50 am

Thanks for the correction Sellecklover. It has been a while since I've seen the biography you mentioned. I wonder if that Pepsi Ad you mentioned ever aired on TV. Does anyone know? If so, I wonder if a copy still exists? I'd like to see the Ad if it still exists. I imagine that probably had to be mid-to-late 60's.

I think someone previously mentioned this, but I noticed that in "Paper War" Magnum wore a black cap with "Get Wet" on it. This is at the end of the episode when the feud between Magnum and Higgins has ended and Magnum enters Higgins' study with the cap on.

IslandHopper · #9 Post by **IslandHopper** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:52 am

Great input on the Magnum caps burroughsmvp!

#10 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:02 am

burroughsmvp wrote:Here are the caps I have listed in my old notes:
Tigers
VMO2
Camouflage
Al's Muffler
Gray Adjustable in #96
Another Gray Adjustable in 128 and 144 (could be the same cap as 96)
Get Wet
White Painters Cap
Tan Painters Cap
Orange D Tigers
USC Trojans

That doesn't count the Driving Cap in 126 or the Hard Hat in 54

Hey Mike, great to have you here! Thanks for the input. I had sinking feeling I was missing some - quite a few as it turns out!

SelleckLover · #11 Post by **SelleckLover** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:53 am

I know that the Pepsi ad did indeed run on television, because I remember it!
I have followed TS's career ever since I saw him in "Myra Breckenridge" in the late 1960's believe it or not! (Yeah! I'm old! LOL) I faithfully watched him in the soap opera "The Young & the Restless" in the early 70's and so on.
And James, if I knew how to capture video on my computer I'd send that Pepsi Ad to you off of my Biography video.

zendragon · #12 Post by **zendragon** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:03 pm

Newbie here, but Magnum fan.

I was wondering, does anyone know if they still produce Tiger's Ball Caps like the one Magnum wore in the 80's? I see a lot of the New Era Caps, but they have a very raised DT emblem.

thanks for the answer in advance!

Buzz · #13 Post by **Buzz** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:25 pm

zendragon wrote:Newbie here, but Magnum fan.

I was wondering, does anyone know if they still produce Tiger's Ball Caps like the one Magnum wore in the 80's? I see a lot of the New Era Caps, but they have a very raised DT emblem.

thanks for the answer in advance!

These guys should have it:

http://www.ballcap.com/

zendragon · #14 Post by **zendragon** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:47 pm

Buzz wrote:
zendragon wrote:Newbie here, but Magnum fan.

I was wondering, does anyone know if they still produce Tiger's Ball Caps like the one Magnum wore in the 80's? I see a lot of the New Era Caps, but they have a very raised DT emblem.

thanks for the answer in advance!
These guys should have it:

http://www.ballcap.com/

Thanks... just what I was looking for. I am guessing the 1974 model is what I am hunting for?