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

By: mickeluna

mickeluna — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:02:54 +0000

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.

By: Tyler Techo

Tyler Techo — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:02:54 +0000

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 ^

By: Chipmaker

Chipmaker — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:02:53 +0000

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.

By: travisbiehn

travisbiehn — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:02:53 +0000

right handed is what i would think it is.

By: dawgdays

dawgdays — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:02:53 +0000

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

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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.