Ye Olde Baker Boy
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— The Scout, flaunting his delivery speed
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The Ye Olde Baker Boy is an unlockable headwear item for the Scout. It appears as a brown tweed cap, with a stiff brim, soft fabric crown and a button on top.
Painted variants
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Trivia
- The Baker Boy is also known as a Newsboy Cap, an Apple Cap, an Eight-Panel, a Jay Gatsby, a Fisherman's Cap, and a Lundburg Stetson.
- The Baker Boy is commonly associated with Newspaper boys, also called newsboys or "newsies." These were the main distributors of newspapers to the general public from the mid-19th to the early 20th century in the United States. Standing on street corners, walking through neighborhoods, and hawking their papers throughout every city, they first appeared with the rise of mass circulation newspapers. Newsboys tended to be among the poorest individuals of society, often seen sleeping in the streets.
- Newsboys were known for being loud and intrusive, much like the Scout.
- The Baker Boy is on of the few hats that are correct with the time of when TF2 takes place(1930's).
- The hat description was written by Doreauxgard42. The description was slightly extended by Valve.
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