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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
I found an A's (by jdew) and a Phillies (unknown).
I like the baseball in the center of the "P" for the Phillies.
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Just a little logo trivia....
The Phillies one was done by a professional firm for the Phillies in 1969 for the 1970 season. Its one of two similar designs. The second did not have the stylized likeness of a baseball in the center of the "P". That's because sometime in 1930's (I don't remember exactly when, but after the White Sox used their incredible combination of two C's, a baseball and two bats to spell "Sox") MLB banned the image of a baseball on uniform fronts (thinking that might be somehow distracting to the batter I guess). Since the "P" with the stylized baseball in the center was sewn on the uniform front, technically the Phillies had an image of a baseball on the uniform front in violation of that MLB rule. Someone (it might have been the umpires) filed a complaint. So.... the next year they had to change it to remove the line. A couple years later when the red went to maroon it returned and this time no one complained.