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 Post subject: Major League Baseball 1960s logo
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:13 pm 
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With the 2012 baseball season starting, I was looking around for an appropriate baseball image to wear as an avatar. I stumbled upon this, which was the official MLB logo used throughout the 1960s (before being replaced in 1969 by the one that's still in use today):

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The asymmetric design, garish colours and whimsical hand-lettering (placed off-centre, yet) clearly date this logo as from the pre-computer graphics era. :) Somebody was paid a lot of money by MLB to design the above. Fifty years of technological progress have enabled a crayoner like me to attempt to improve it.

Now, I'm no Judge WAN, but about five minutes of photoshopping the old logo resulted in this avatar, which is much more pleasing to my eyes:

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 Post subject: Major League Baseball 1960s logo
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:16 pm 
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That is cool.

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 Post subject: Major League Baseball 1960s logo
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:17 pm 
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Your photoshop work is good. But it's a horrible, horrible logo. Worse than the Third Reich.

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 Post subject: Major League Baseball 1960s logo
PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:22 pm 
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Very cool!! Good work, Linda!

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 Post subject: Major League Baseball 1960s logo
PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 12:22 am 
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The original Astros logo had a similar hand lettered font.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 4:09 pm 
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