A Nats hat in The Karate Kid

He's like an incidental celluloid John the Baptist; preparing the world for the coming of Baseball Jeezus.

It's a Senators hat. My friend and I used to laugh about that when we were younger. The late 60s Senators hats are equivalent to the current red Nationals hats. I bought a Cooperstown Collection Senators hat in 1995 and the logo is identical to the current team.

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Larry Drake (wearing the hat) shares the same name as a Larry Drake who played seven games for the 1948 Senators.

And my boss says I have no motivation...

Old news http://dl004d.blogspot.com/2008/01/curly-w.html

My guess is the wardrobe supervisor for the film chose it simply because it's kind of "random," something someone would have picked up for 25 cents at a Goodwill

Maybe it's not a Senators hat - perhaps the guy works at Walgreen's.

You seriously didn't know that was a Senators hat? Dude. Do you get paid?

I emailed Gene Weingarten yesterday at 2:39pm to ask him to look into this. Either he did, or this is an very bizarre coincidence. Glad to know the answer, though!

Turns out this is indeed old news. My bad. New to me.

And @RIP-21, in 1971, I wasn't born. In 1984, when The Karate Kid came out, I was 8 years old and living in Western New York. I actually have tried to s learn about D.C. sports history, but I'll never know as much about D.C. sports in the late '60s as anyone who lived through it, or who grew up here. Maybe I should have known what hats Washington baseball teams have used, but I didn't.

That's good costuming. The director needed a reason for a stranger to be a fall down, angry, violent drunk. He found his answer by simply making him a Washington sports fan. Brilliant.

That's Larry Drake, who went on to play Benny Stulwicz, the mentally challenged mail room employee, on "L.A. Law" for years. My guess: Drake, a noted Method actor, created an elaborate back story for the important role of "Yahoo #1 at Beach." (There are no small parts, only small actors). Drake envisioned Yahoo #1 as a deranged Senators fan, unhinged by the team's flight to Texas in 1971. He wanders the country for 13 years, arriving on a Malibu beach where he encounters Miagi and Daniel-san. In a drunken stupor, mistakes them for Bob Short and his son and attacks.