# Major league baseball logo **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132 "2003-05-18T23:54:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/1 "2003-05-18T23:54:54Z")
Searched to no avail. Most know Jerry West is on the the NBA logo. Who is on the MLB logo? It is a right handed hitter. Although I heard it was Yaz turned around, but it doesn’t look like him at all, & why would he be mirror image anyway? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/2 "2003-05-19T00:27:55Z")
For sure it’s a right-handed hitter. The [trademark](http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=jtglqf.2.39) application is from 1969. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/3 "2003-05-19T01:29:04Z")
The logo is generally assumed to be roughly patterned after the silhouette of Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, who at the time was one of the majors’ most feared sluggers. It does look like his stance. ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/4 "2003-05-19T01:54:44Z")
Why assume the image is that of a righthanded batter based soley on the image itself? Since it’s a silhouette, it can be thought of as a righthanded batter viewed from behind, or a lefthanded batter viewed from the front. The same principle applies to the NBA logo (although it’s well-known that Jerry West couldn’t dribble to his left very well…). ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/5 "2003-05-19T04:03:50Z")
Well, the bat’s over the right shoulder & the batter is looking left. 1969 helps, Killebrew was still big then,& it sure looks more like his stance than Yaz.(But Yaz did go pretty crazy in 1967.) Re: West: very ironic indeed going left. He admitted he couldn’t do that well at all in 1960, his rookie year. Why Elgin usually dribbled against the press, in the early 60’s. I wonder if West got a flat fee. The NBA logo is on every backboard,& uniform worn/sold. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/6 "2003-05-19T05:18:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by doctordoowop \* > **Well, the bat’s over the right shoulder & the batter is looking left…** Not necessarily. Come on: it’s a silhouette. Imagine you’re looking at a lefthanded batter from the front. The image is the same either way. ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/7 "2003-05-19T05:38:30Z")
OK i’ll check now. ---
**Author:** ![doctordoowop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecc23a/32.png) [@doctordoowop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doctordoowop)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/8 "2003-05-19T05:46:22Z")
I just looked at the logo. I agree w/you, but it sure looks like old Harmon to me. I’ll try to ask MLB.( facial resemblance too.) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/9 "2003-05-19T06:07:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by doctordoowop \* > \*\*I just looked at the logo. I agree w/you, but it sure looks like old Harmon to me. I’ll try to ask MLB.( facial resemblance too.) \*\* I had heard it was Ted Williams, but Killebrew is indeed the man, at least according to [this quiz](http://www.atpm.com/6.07/trivia.shtml?print) (change the **7** in the URL to an **8** to see the answers revealed). ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/10 "2003-05-19T20:51:35Z")
I believe MLB themselves do not know who the player in the logo is. I doubt if is an actual person, since the nose is awfully pointy. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/11 "2003-05-19T21:15:03Z")
I could have sworn that I read something official from MLB a while back stating that the figure in the logo does not represent any single player. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/12 "2003-05-19T21:28:37Z")
I could have sworn that I read something official from MLB a while back stating that the figure in the logo does not represent any single player. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/13 "2003-05-19T21:37:05Z")
I could have sworn that I read something official from MLB a while back stating that the figure in the logo does not represent any single player. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/14 "2003-05-19T21:46:42Z")
I could have sworn that I read something official from MLB a while back stating that the figure in the logo does not represent any single player. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/15 "2003-05-19T21:53:10Z")
I could have sworn that I read something official from MLB a while back stating that the figure in the logo does not represent any single player. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/16 "2003-05-19T22:05:56Z")
Stupid hamsters. Sorry about that… ☹ Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-logo/176132/17 "2003-05-19T22:08:05Z")
In any event, check out the official word here Zev Steinhardt