It took a bite out of the earflap on her hat.

In 1983, it was made mandatory for new players to use a helmet with at least one earflap.

Some batters felt that seeing the earflap out of the corner of an eye was distracting.

The scarab beetle was there, a small, bright jewel against the grey earflap.

You wear your earflap hat and flannel.

The soldier grinned and reached for a half-smoked cigarette behind the earflap of his fur hat.

Shortly after this, Major League Baseball adopted the use of a helmet with a pre-molded earflap.

His blade cut the cheek of a barrellike mutant, severing the earflap of its leather cap.

Major League Baseball rule 1.16 requires players who were not in the major leagues before 1983 to wear a batting helmet with at least one earflap.

During the 1964 season, Tony González was the first major league baseball player to wear a batting helmet with a pre-molded earflap.

He had slewed his fur cap around so one earflap hid his empty socket and he looked no different from any other Khamorth.

Prosik spoke loudly so Mugly would not be forced to lift an earflap, a thing certain to increase the Elder's irritation.

Fortunately for Biggio, Gonzalez's pitch brushed off the earflap of his helmet before bruising his face, so that lessened the sting.

Maddux angered the Giants by hitting Jeff Kent on his left earflap with a fastball in the third inning, but he otherwise had near-perfect control.

In the helmet Beltran wears when batting right-handed, when his left cheekbone would face the pitcher, the Mets placed additional padding below the earflap.

Battey was one of the first Major League players to wear an earflap on his batting helmet in 1961 after twice suffering broken cheekbones when hit by pitches.

Ron Santo was an early pioneer of wearing earflap helmets at the major league level, upon returning to action after having his left cheekbone fractured by a pitch in 1966.

Rusch lasted one and two-thirds innings, his shortest start in a year, and the last of his 40 pitches struck the earflap of Brian Giles's helmet.

Julio Franco, who retired from baseball in May 2008, was the last active player eligible to wear a helmet without flaps, but he chose to wear a helmet with an earflap throughout his career.

On July 23, 1961, catcher Earl Battey was hit in the face with a pitch, fracturing a bone, and 10 days later returned to the field with a makeshift earflap to protect the injured area, though he only wore it for one game because he complained of difficulty seeing while wearing it.