They way I heard it -- I’m assuming from Paul Lukas, bit it could have come from someone else -- was that the Nats’ home uniforms were originally going to look just as they do now, but that the cap was going to have a blocky W that matched the jersey font. Someone -- maybe someone in MLB marketing -- saw this and freaked out that the old Senators’ script W wasn’t going to be used. Not long afterwards the team caved and we have the mismatch we have all come to know and love. There was even a pic of the prototype block W cap accompanying the article if I remember correctly, but I can’t find it.
Anyway: the mismatch is about to be no more. The Nats are going to unveil new uniforms in a couple of weeks, and the big design change is going to be that the word “Nationals” on the jerseys will switch to a script font to match the curly Ws. The current road uniforms -- which look a hell of a lot better than the home uniforms if you ask me -- already have the script font.
I consider this to be progress.