Retro Style Logos and Uniforms

[tarmer]

Originally Posted by knuckler

Here are some Oregon State Beaver logos and a shot of Steve Lyons from his Beaver career. I think the logos without the outline around the Beavers are going to show up better in the game.

Knuckler - you and TX are killing them - these are awesome



Jacoby Ellsbury as a Beaver

[wwines]

Jacoby Ellsbury and his be....never mind.

[txranger]

Oregon State Beavers

[knuckler]

Wow, those look so good. The hat logo is amazing and all of the jerseys look old school. The block beavers and Oregon State would be my favorites. Thank you so much!

The first Colorado logo is my favorite, but here are some additional options. Please let me know if I can improve this logo for you. The shot is of John Stearns from the early 1970s.

[txranger]

Came across this old comic strip character from the 1940's named Ozark Ike... He played for a team named the Bugs... Based on some quick research on who the character was based on, from the team in the movie and since Bugs seems to me to be a play on the word Cubs, guess where I based the team... Here is some background on the character and where he was derived from...

Ozark Ike
Ozark Ike was a newspaper comic strip about dumb but likable Ozark Ike McBatt, a youth from a rural area in the mountains. The strip was created by Rufus A. ("Ray") Gotto while he was serving in the Navy during World War II in Washington, D.C. as an illustrator for Navy instruction manuals.
Characters and story
Strong-but-dumb Ike McBatt is from a hillbilly family living in the small backwoods community of Wildweed Run (pop. 49). Ozark Ike is an all-around athlete, playing baseball, football and basketball. Between seasons, he enters the boxing ring. The characters and the baseball park settings are apparently inspired by Ring Lardner's well-known baseball short story "Alibi Ike" (1915), filmed in 1935 as the comedy Alibi Ike.
Ozark Ike's girlfriend is Dinah Fatfield, whose family has been involved in a feud with the McBatt clan for several generations. As evident in the names, this background situation of the strip was inspired by the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
Gotto presented Ozark Ike to promoter Stephen Slesinger, who also managed Red Ryder, King of the Royal Mounted and the merchandising of Winnie-the-Pooh. Slesinger sold the cartoon to King Features Syndicate, and it debuted November 12, 1945. Gotto's assistant on the strip was Fred Rhoads. Gotto left in 1954, but the strip continued until 1959 under King Features cartoonists Bill Lignante and George Olesen. Lignante was better known as one of the leading courtroom artists for network television.
"Ozark Ike" was the nickname of major league baseball players Gus Zernial and Ralph Kiner.

Alibi Ike whom Ozark Ike is based on
Alibi Ike is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joe E. Brown and Olivia de Havilland. The film is based on a short story "Alibi Ike" written by Ring Lardner and first published in the Saturday Evening Post on July 31, 1915. The film is about an ace baseball player Frank X. Farrell nicknamed "Alibi Ike", a baseball player who continually makes excuses for everything that goes wrong or right. For example, when asked what he batted last year, Farrell says that he had had malaria most of the season, which is why he hit only .356. Lardner is said to have patterned Alibi Ike after baseball player King Cole.
After falling in love with the beautiful sister-in-law of the team manager, he is kidnapped by gangsters who want him to throw the World Series.
Alibi Ike was the most successful of Joe E. Brown's "baseball trilogy" of films, which also included Elmer the Great and Fireman Save My Child. It is considered one of the best baseball comedies of all time.

[txranger]

[knuckler]

It's always cool when neat finds like this one are shared and it's even cooler to get a great logo and uniform set to go with it. Thanks, Tex.

[knuckler]

Originally Posted by wwines

When and if you have time could you please make some logos for the following leagues:

Transcontinental League
Texas League
Sunset League
Frontier League
California League
Caribbean League

Let me know if you would like to see any changes:

[txranger]

Those Texas League logos are sweeeeeeeeet...

[wwines]

As usual Knuckler simply amazing and perfect!!!

[Poweshow]

Knuckler, where do you get your clipart (???) from? And what fonts do you find yourself using the most?

[txranger]

Colorado Buffaloes

[JoJo7]

I have to chime in as well... That Texas League logo is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen! Could you do that logo for my league? I did an overall logo but I'm using default league logos. They're the Chilhowee League & Hiwassee League. If I could get one for each of those that would be awesome! If not, I understand but those are just great!

Joey

[Qdog]

Hey knuckler and tex, was looking through the thread and I saw some amazing logos and jerseys! just was wondering if I could make a couple requests.

Here they are:

Salt Lake City Alpines
New Orleans Alligators (only request for this one is a fleur-de-lis)
Montreal Polar Bears
Minnesota Chiefs
Houston Cosmos
Memphis Cavalry
Indiana Racers
Kansas City Natives

Thanks in advance!

[tarmer]

Knuckler...TX - Let me thank you again for everybody on these boards, The partnership you guys have put together to provide us with a better experience cannot be appreciated in words...

But I am loving this Pac-12 series (as well as all else you guys have done)

Once again from all of us OOTPer's... Many thanks

[txranger]

Originally Posted by tarmer

Knuckler...TX - Let me thank you again for everybody on these boards, The partnership you guys have put together to provide us with a better experience cannot be appreciated in words...

But I am loving this Pac-12 series (as well as all else you guys have done)

Once again from all of us OOTPer's... Many thanks

Your most welcome and it is, as it always has been, a pleasure to work with the likes of the Knuckler... His eye for colors, fonts and graphics that he uses in the creation of logos makes it a lot of fun and pretty easy to come up with the caps and the jerseys.
I love all of these college teams myself...

[skyballer455]

Originally Posted by knuckler

These are based off of the pullovers worn in the early 80s. Let me know if you need any changes.

Sorry for the late reply. Those are great, keep em coming.

[knuckler]

Three options with Oski for Cal:








Jeff Kent:

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[knuckler]

Originally Posted by txranger

Those Texas League logos are sweeeeeeeeet...

Originally Posted by wwines

As usual Knuckler simply amazing and perfect!!!

Thank you!

Originally Posted by JoJo7

I have to chime in as well... That Texas League logo is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen! Could you do that logo for my league? I did an overall logo but I'm using default league logos. They're the Chilhowee League & Hiwassee League. If I could get one for each of those that would be awesome! If not, I understand but those are just great!

Joey

Thanks, I can edit the logo and just insert league names or I can try to make something geared a little more toward Tennessee if you want.

[knuckler]

Originally Posted by tarmer

Knuckler...TX - Let me thank you again for everybody on these boards, The partnership you guys have put together to provide us with a better experience cannot be appreciated in words...

But I am loving this Pac-12 series (as well as all else you guys have done)

Once again from all of us OOTPer's... Many thanks

Originally Posted by txranger

Your most welcome and it is, as it always has been, a pleasure to work with the likes of the Knuckler... His eye for colors, fonts and graphics that he uses in the creation of logos makes it a lot of fun and pretty easy to come up with the caps and the jerseys.
I love all of these college teams myself...

Thanks so much to both of you. Tex, the CU jersey you did that mimics the John Stearns-era is fantastic. I absolutely love it.