FITTED FOR PUNAHOU BASEBALL
Please note: The ʻAipuni snapback will be distributed exclusively by the Punahou School Baseball Program and will not be released to the public.Story and design by Ryan Auyoung (Punahou Alumnus)We would like to give a nod to America’s Favorite Pastime, baseball or kinipopo as our ancestors called it. As some of you may know, our little island home played a big role in the modernization of the sport. ʻAipuni was a form of Baseball that was introduced in the mid 1800’s. Players back then used sandbags as bases and bats were made from Kukui and Hau branches from Manoa Valley. Dried-out coconut shells were often used as balls as well as anything else the Keiki could find to play.In 1849,...