silhouetted batter

[dannyf113]

does anyone know the history behind the MLB logo?

ive heard some rumors, but i wanted to know if there was any solid proof

[MrAsterisk]

The only one I've heard is Harmon Killebrew.

Of course, just like the NBA logo, it will be impossible to find "solid proof".

[CC97]

the MLB's official stance is that it's noone in particular

[Gothamite]

Same with the NBA - although "everybody knows" it's Jerry West, the NBA's official position is that it's not based on any one player.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5328860...40813162&ATT=73

[floydnimrod]

Yep, thats definantly Harmon Killebrew, looks just like him. I mean they got the same haircut, same eye color, how could it not be him?

anyway the NBA's supposedly is Jerry West

[Bearcats]

Yep, thats definantly Harmon Killebrew, looks just like him. I mean they got the same haircut, same eye color, how could it not be him?

anyway the NBA's supposedly is Jerry West

I don't think that it's definitely Killebrew. Looks like a lefty to me.

[Sport]

if he swings at that pitch he's gonna miss it.

[jWilson4mvp]

Yep, thats definantly Harmon Killebrew, looks just like him. I mean they got the same haircut, same eye color, how could it not be him?

anyway the NBA's supposedly is Jerry West

I don't think that it's definitely Killebrew. Looks like a lefty to me.

I could be looking straight into a lefty or behind a righty which I think is the beautiy of it. I doubt its anyone for sure because no one's nose is that pointy.

[MrAsterisk]

It's high anyway. He would be an idiot to chase it.

[NJTank]

Its the Killer

[evobost]

I've never understood this logo. Don't get me wrong I think it is a pretty quality logo, but where the ball is and where the bat is, there is absolutely no way he would catch up to that ball.

[paynomind]

does anyone know the history behind the MLB logo?

ive heard some rumors, but i wanted to know if there was any solid proof

I've nver thought of it this way before, but it you try hard, you can see the logo as being form the Umpire's view.. the pitcher is to the top left fo the blue, just far enough away to be out of sight into the blue fog (ok, work with me, here)

The ball is headed right at the viewer, but is about to drop, as its a big hook, or a knuckleball.

The batter is a lefty, and has coiled back to take his mighty swing.

See it that way?

[Drew22]

does anyone know the history behind the MLB logo?

ive heard some rumors, but i wanted to know if there was any solid proof

I've nver thought of it this way before, but it you try hard, you can see the logo as being form the Umpire's view.. the pitcher is to the top left fo the blue, just far enough away to be out of sight into the blue fog (ok, work with me, here)

The ball is headed right at the viewer, but is about to drop, as its a big hook, or a knuckleball.

The batter is a lefty, and has coiled back to take his mighty swing.

See it that way?

I can see that too. But, I still think of it the other way.

[Cyclopsis Joe]

I like how you think, paynomind, but it's like one of those picture with a hidden picture in it, you really have to look at it right to see it that way.

[CS85]

It's actually a picture of a vase. Or is it two people about to kiss?

[BroadSt_Bully]

I see the Virgin Mary.

[leopard88]

I see Elvis.

Or Harmon Killebrew (because I've always pictured it as the back of a righthanded hitter -- maybe natural bias because I'm righthanded).

[MrAsterisk]

I've never understood this logo. Don't get me wrong I think it is a pretty quality logo, but where the ball is and where the bat is, there is absolutely no way he would catch up to that ball.

So? It's not like no one ever takes a pitch in Major League Baseball.

[evobost]

I've never understood this logo.  Don't get me wrong I think it is a pretty quality logo, but where the ball is and where the bat is, there is absolutely no way he would catch up to that ball.

So? It's not like no one ever takes a pitch in Major League Baseball.

I realize that, and its not a big deal, but I just find it kinda wierd that the logo is of someone taking a pitch, or someone is throwing a ball.

[leafs13]

Am I the only one who knows the truth? Am I? Here's the real story:

MLB stole this logo. Yes, it was stolen! From who? A poor association called the NBADL. (This association, is also known as the National people with Beards who are Alabamians who Drink Liquids.)

Ah, but why would such a group create a logo that looks like batter and a ball? Well, the logo was stolen, then flipped upside down!

If you look closely, you can clearly see that on the right there is a face with a beard about to drink out of a hamster bottle.

Then once MLB released the logo is spread like the black plague. (Wow, that's a good simile.) Everyone knew about MLB, but the NBADL? No way! But this is America, and "with every crime, there is a law suit."

Sure enough the NBADL took MLB to court. In the first day of the trial, it looked like the NBADL would win the trial, but then MLB's lawyer asked why the man would be drinking out of hamster bottle, but NBADL member shot back with a very convincing answer. He told him that all NBADLers drink out of hamster botttles because it was common knowledge that the cold metal would cause their beards to grow quicker than usual.

The trial went on, and it looked like MLB would lose, but then at the last second Harmon Killebrew (who was born in Idaho) stepped in and took everyone in the courthouse hostage single handedly with a potato gun. Then he had all of the the NBADLers killed (Yes, all 19 of them. That's the the total number of career SB for Killebrew. A coincidence? I think not!) and paid everyone else not to tell anyone about this.

But later that week one of the paid of jury members was showed the MLB logo by a friend. And he just started to repeat "Harmon Killebrew." His friend then thought that the MLB logo looked like Killebrew and he told all of his friends that that was who it was. Then the idea that it was Killebrew in the logo spread like Pokémon in the late 1990s.

So the REAL story explains somethings. The many things being:

1. Harmon's nickname

2. Why everyone thinks it's Killebrew

3. When the potato gun was really invented