Regarding the color, Cardinal Red with Blue would have been more “baseball-y”, but the skein of yarn I had was pink. At one point, I thought about calling it Staghorn Sumac, as the pinks and oranges reminded me of the sumac foliage and the brown of the berries. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t ALWAYS go to the yarn store, sometimes I actually pull something from my stash. The pink yarn was included in a “book plus” from Borders. The book was “One Skein Wonders”, and the plus was the skein of yarn, and a pair of knitting needles. The brown was left-over from another hat.