Hat Trick: How to make a hat hanger from a baseball

I have been neck deep and tied up with install baseboard (you could say I'm based-bored), so today I just need to do something a little different. 

 Our basement area hasn't come a long way since I installed the floors last year, but it's been much used as a boy play area.  When I was cleaning out the boy's closet this summer, we realized how many hats he has!  Every time you play a new season of baseball you get a new hat, and they have piled up.  But when it's time for the big game tomorrow, I know we will be looking high and low for that special hat for the game.....

and we will find it!  There it is...hanging right on the basement wall!

I bought new baseballs and drilled into it and then screwed in a dowel screw, which is a screw with threads on each end. 



Then I screwed it right into the wall.  In this spot, there is a stud, so I pre-drilled and just screwed it in.  In other spots in the drywall, I use a drywall anchor.  When the hat is in use, you have a cute baseball stuck on the wall! 

As we find and hang other hats, it's adding a fun element to the "fan-cave".