I figured for a fabulous Friday heading into the weekend, we would shake the dust off some old questions I had residing in my inbox. As always, you can e-mail me at mhurst@pe.com to have your questions about the Angels - or whatever, I truly consider myself a Renaissance man (*snicker*) - answered in this space.

First two questions (yes you can e-mail me multiple questions) come from Bill Chandos, who as always, brings the heat with his queries. Some good baseball-related topics here:

A couple statistical questions:

2) When a player gets a hit, but gets thrown out at second, he still gets credited with a single. Does he get credit in his on-base percentage? I swear I saw, early in the season, Mike Piazza have a higher batting average than on-base percentage, shortly after he tried to stretch a single into a double.

To the first question, yes, a pitcher's error does not count against his ERA. Personally, I think that's a bad idea since the error was the pitcher's, but Abner Doubleday didn't. Since a wild pitch is not an error in the true sense of the definition, a run scoring as result of a wild pitch does count toward a pitcher's ERA.

I needed some help on the second one, because that was truly a mind-boggling one. I asked Angels public relations representative Larry Babcock, who is on this trip, and he told me this: sacrifice flies count in determining on-base percentage.

So, to fully figure it out, add the total number of hits, walks and hit by pitches and divide by the total number of at-bats, walks, hit by pitches AND sac flies.

Good stuff. Thanks Bill.

Let's head to Marvin's question, which may seem to come from left field when reading what is put here, but he explained in a longer e-mail that he was searching for an old-school L.A. Angels hat.

In search of the perfect hat, I've come across various incarnations of the Angels Baseball cap. Do you know any of the story behind the "halo" cap? How long were those around for?

The hat I believe you're referring to seen here was the Angels' original hat when they became a major-league team in 1961. They wore this hat until 1965. I asked team spokesman Tim Mead about it and he said that he believed the team kept that look from their days in the Pacific Coast League before they became a minor-league team.

However, the team kept the halo around the top of their hat when they changed names to the California Angels, so the halo look was around on the hat seen here until 1969, officially, before it was taken away.

Personally, my favorite Angels' hat is the one seen here. I don't know why, just something about the lower case "A" and the way the halo on it is tilted off the side. It just seems cool.