Is the batter on the Major League Baseball logo batting left or right?

6 Comments

1. Chipmaker says:

   July 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

   It is deliberately ambiguous.

   I tend to see a RH batter, but I’m right-handed, and that way we’d be looking at the batter’s name and jersey number. But the viewer can see it either way.
2. travisbiehn says:

   July 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

   right handed is what i would think it is.
3. dawgdays says:

   July 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

   I read that Harmon Killebrew was the "model" for the MLB logo, and he was a right-handed batter.

   –

   But because I think of seeing the batter’s chest instead of his back, that would make my view that of a left-handed batter.

   @Mick: thanks for that correction.
4. Connor says:

   July 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

   http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/3015873755_780788212b_o.png
   That’s not the player used in the logo, but it shows what a left handed batter would look like.

   To me, it looks like a lefty, but I can also see the argument as a right handed hitter. I guess it can really be either, depending on the person.
5. mickeluna says:

   July 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

   A lot of people think it was modeled after Harmon, but the creator, Jerry Dior, stated that it was modeled after several similar photographs of random batters. It was created as a silhouette with the intent of ambiguity so that the batter could be either right- or left-handed.
6. Tyler Techo says:

   July 20, 2011 at 7:02 pm

   I agree with mick it is ambiguous to the viewer. You can develop a solid argument for the batter to be either right or left handed.

   http://warmedoversports.blogspot.com/2007/10/bar-fight-escalates-over-mlb-logo.html

   funny ^