50 Best Logos in Major League Baseball History | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Prior to the 1960 season, Major League Baseball itself had no official logo, and from 1960-1968 they combined a red, white and blue flag with a baseball in the middle.

In 1969, the new logo was revealed, and it was readily accepted for its simplicity and ambiguity. Its background has often been credited as a likeness of Hall of Fame slugger Harmon Killebrew, however, according to MLB.com, no one player is credited as having been the model, and an ESPN story in 2009 confirmed the identity of the original creator, Jerry Dior, who claimed that the design was based on a composite of several photos.

Nonetheless, the logo has become the standard-bearer of MLB, and logos for other major professional sports were patterned after MLB's design as well, including the NBA and its Jerry West-based logo.