He couldn't stop the crawl of his smirk, especially after that last word. "I've never much cared for baseball. You know I only bought the cowboy hat because I went into a shop once and it fit. Everything else that's been put on it has got nothin' to do with me."

Actually, it had everything to do with him, but he wasn't the kind of man to see it that way.

"It's just a good fittin' hat."