Baseball for many is a smorgasbord of statistics, numbers, dates and milestones. To achieve 3000 hits, or 300 wins, to bat .400, or win 20 games, these all mean something to the faithful, the fantasy player, the historian. Baseball has it's place in history, it's heritage is marked with mile posts such as the dead ball era, the House that Ruth built, Ted Williams assault on hitting .400 or Joe DiMaggios's 56 game consecutive hitting streak.
It is also made of trivial and nonsensical and whimsical things like team logos, team promotions, and gadgets that we collect, and pass on through generations as part of our heritage. Items like bobble heads, baseball cards, old board games, anything that seems to take us back to our childhood.
When you begin to try and display examples, you are struck by the enormity of how much their is. As time passes, teams look and dress differently, uniforms, hats, hairstyles, ballparks and logos change, some because the teams have moved on to another city, such as the A's who started in Philadelphia, then moved to Kansas City , then finally to Oakland, who may some day move north and renames themselves a 4rth time.
Here is sampling of some familiar and long forgotten team logos.
These are long forgotten logos for such teams as the Brooklyn Dodgers, St.Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox and the defunct Seattle Pilots.
For so
me added fun, here are some bobble heads of pre expansion teams.
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