MLB 9/11 Hats 2026: Every Tribute Cap the Yankees, Mets and All 30 Teams Wore on the 25th Anniversary

Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, every cap in Major League Baseball carried the same patch on Friday night, and two of them carried something more. This is the full record of what baseball wore on the anniversary, from the league-wide ribbon to the caps the Yankees and Mets pulled on in the Bronx, and the ceremony that surrounded the Subway Series.

What Did the Yankees and Mets Wear on 9/11?

Both New York clubs took the field at Yankee Stadium in first-responder caps with their own team logos in place of the interlocking NY and the Mets script. The FDNY, the NYPD and the Port Authority Police were among the agencies represented, the same caps the Mets first wore on September 21, 2001, the night baseball came back to New York, and the ones the league spent most of a decade refusing to let them wear again.

Under the caps it was the oldest picture in New York baseball: the Mets in road gray, the Yankees in the home pinstripes. The Yankees won 6-4. We gave the game our Clash of the Day on the MLB daily uniform tracker for the caps alone, because no jersey on the field that night mattered as much as what sat above it.

The Cap Every Other Team Wore

All 28 other clubs, plus every manager, coach and umpire, wore their regular cap with a special "We Shall Never Forget" side patch from New Era: a red, white and blue ribbon carrying a stars-and-stripes version of the MLB batter logo. The patch sat on the right side of the cap, the same spot the league has used for its September 11 marks since 2011.

One club changed its cap entirely. The Toronto Blue Jays wore a cap with the Canadian and American flags side by side, the only non-American team in the league marking a day it remembers as a neighbour. Toronto wore it with the navy City Connect against the Orioles.

MLB sells the anniversary caps at retail and donates the royalties in full to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York, the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville and the Pentagon Memorial Fund.

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The Ceremony in the Bronx

The night's ceremonial first pitch went to Brielle Saracini and Sean McGuire, who both lost their fathers on September 11 and met as children at a camp for families of the victims. The Yankees said they stood in for the 3,051 children who lost a parent that day.

Before the game, Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole and Aaron Boone placed a wreath beside the 9/11 tribute in Monument Park, the memorial first dedicated at the original Yankee Stadium.

What Every Ballpark Did

The tributes were league-wide, not only in New York. Every park on Friday used customized base jewels and official lineup cards, the home club hosted a moment of silence, the scoreboards ran a dedication produced by MLB Network, and "God Bless America" was played during the seventh-inning stretch at all fifteen games, the way it was in every park in the weeks after the attacks. In the morning, MLB and the Mets co-hosted a meal-packing service event at Citi Field with the nonprofit 9/11 Day.

Why the First-Responder Caps Took Twenty Years

The Mets wore caps from the FDNY, NYPD, Port Authority, Sanitation and local EMS on September 21, 2001, the first game in New York after the attacks. For the tenth anniversary in 2011 the league said the caps violated its uniform rules and the Mets were told to take them off, and every request after that was denied until 2020, when MLB finally cleared both New York clubs to wear them on the anniversary. The 2021 Subway Series at Citi Field was the first time the two teams had ever met on September 11. Friday's game in the Bronx was the second.

Also on Friday: The NFL's Ribbon

Football marked the day too. The 49ers and Rams wore the 9/11 ribbon decal on the back of their helmets in Melbourne, the first regular-season game ever played in Australia, visible in the game photography from the MCG. The rest of the NFL's Week 1 slate, on Sunday, falls after the anniversary. Both looks are logged on the 2026 NFL uniform tracker.

The Bottom Line

On the 25th anniversary of September 11, every Major League cap carried the "We Shall Never Forget" ribbon patch, the Blue Jays wore both nations' flags, and the Yankees and Mets played the Subway Series in first-responder caps, the FDNY, NYPD and Port Authority marks in place of their own logos. The Yankees won 6-4, the royalties from the anniversary caps go to the three memorials, and the uniforms were the least important thing anyone in the Bronx was looking at.

See what the Yankees and Mets wear the rest of the season on their uniform schedules, and every jersey worn every night on the MLB daily uniform tracker.

Frequently Asked Questions

What hats did MLB teams wear on 9/11 in 2026?

Every player, manager, coach and umpire wore their regular New Era cap with a "We Shall Never Forget" ribbon side patch for the 25th anniversary. The Blue Jays wore a cap with the Canadian and American flags, and the Yankees and Mets wore first-responder caps with their team logos.

What hats did the Yankees and Mets wear on September 11, 2026?

First-responder caps in place of their own: caps carrying the marks of the FDNY, the NYPD and the Port Authority Police, among other agencies, with the team logos on them. Both clubs wore them for the full Subway Series game at Yankee Stadium.

Why did the Blue Jays wear a different cap?

As the league's only Canadian club, Toronto wore a cap with both the Canadian and American flags, its own version of the anniversary tribute.

Where does the money from the 9/11 caps go?

MLB donates the royalties from the anniversary caps in full to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville and the Pentagon Memorial Fund.

Did MLB ever stop the Mets from wearing first-responder caps?

Yes. The Mets wore them on September 21, 2001, but in 2011 the league ruled the caps violated its uniform rules and denied the request every year until 2020, when both New York clubs were cleared to wear them on the anniversary.

Who won the Yankees-Mets game on 9/11, 2026?

The Yankees, 6-4, at Yankee Stadium.