IMPORTANT: Wrong White Sox hat appears in 'Straight Outta Compton'
Read about this shocking disregard of baseball uniform history.
The hit Hollywood drive-in picture show "Straight Outta Compton"? It has a baseball hook of sorts, you know. The hook is that a White Sox hat appears in the opening scene. That's a hook, folks!
Here, via the Chicago Sun-Times, is what that was like ...
Pictured above: Easy E, cinematic rendering.
Anyhow, regarding the choice in headwear, there's this ...
Compton review tomorrow. Biggest problem? Eazy E wearing the Black White Sox hat in 1986 in opening scene. Logo didn’t debut until 1991. :(
— Bob Sturm (@SportsSturm) August 17, 2015
Mr. Sturm is mostly correct, as the logo you see above actually made its first appearance in 1990, not 1991. However, it most assuredly wasn't around in 1986. This was a mistake, yes, but forgiveness makes us a better people.
In the service of healing, here's a crude and miserable Photoshop of what things should've looked like ...
There, that's better. Here to help, as always.