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The Major League Baseball logo was designed by a man called Jerry Dior in 1968. It was included on all on-field uniforms of Major League Baseball employees from the beginning of the 1969 baseball season.
Jerry Dior created the logo in a single afternoon. Contrary to what some people believe, the silhouetted man wasn't actually modeled on a specific player. It was in fact drawn with reference to photographs of several players.
The silhouette does not show which hand the batter prefers, which is one of the reasons why it was chosen for the sports logo.
A dispute about the authorship of the famous logo spanned many years, as two graphic designers laid claim to creating it. One named Jerry Dior, who was working for the marketing firm of Sandgren & Murtha and the other was James Sherman, who is a comic book illustrator.
In November 2008, after closely examining the logo, James Sherman realized that the famous logo was indeed not his design.
In his statement, James Sherman said that he was unaware of the sport logo, but the logo he created was very similar. Also that he felt like a total idiot and flabbergasted!
The baseball logo has not been changed at all since it was adopted, except for the individual baseball teams altering the coloring to match their uniform colors.
It has proven to be an outstanding and popular logo for Major League Baseball, becoming an internationally recognized logo. I can't think of any other logo in any other sport that is more widely recognisable than the logo of Major League Baseball. I think that almost everyone who lays eyes on the logo almost certainly will know what it is, and what sport it belongs to.
Lets hope that it stays that way, I'm sure it will!
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