Why didn’t I think of that?

Back in 1989, Dave Fortney had 2 sons playing little league baseball.

One afternoon, one son came home from practice with a hat so dirty, he wouldn’t be able to wear it for the big championship game that weekend. Dave decided that instead of buying a new one, he would come up with a way to wash it and, hopefully, not ruin it like all the other hats he had tried to wash.  He grabbed a few metal coat hangers, went out into the garage, and a couple of hours later,
came in with the first working prototype of the Ballcap Buddy™ cap washer.

Will it work?

He placed his son’s cap inside it, put it in the top rack of the dishwasher, and both he and his sons sat and waited to see what would happen. When the dish washing cycle had finished, they slowly opened the door, and when the steam cleared…. Voilà!  They had a super clean cap that hadn’t lost it’s shape!

Millions and Millions sold

Sales of the Ballcap Buddy™ cap washer took of like wildfire and showed up in some unexpected places such as Playboy magazine (that made us a little nervous, until we found out someone just wrote in to ask where to find a Ballcap Buddy™ cap washer)

Zippy, the newspaper cartoon, even wrote a comic strip about it.

Sports Accessories

Ballcap Buddy™ is the only cap accessory of its kind. There are others out there that copy it, but Ballcap Buddy™ is the original.

Patent # 5,172,837.