Logo of baseball’s Detroit Tigers used in 1927 and 1928. This is a pretty sad looking tiger that appears to have a severe overbite. The two seasons in which this logo was used were very different in that in 1927, despite finishing fourth in the American League, the team had an 82-71 record. They won only 68 games in ’28 and wound up sixth in the eight team AL. Maybe that’s why the logo tiger looks so sad. Two Hall of Famers played for Detroit in this era – Charlie Gehringer and Heinie Manush, while another, Ty Cobb, retired prior to the ’27 season. That would be another reason for the tiger to be sad.
Ray Anselmo
January 3, 2013 at 7:49 pm
Cobb didn’t retire prior to the 1927 season – he was released by Detroit (and fired as manager), but played in ’27 and ’28 with the Philadelphia Athletics.
And yeah, that Tiger logo is pitiful — it looks like a cross between a mountain lion with a broken jaw and whatever’s on the cover of R.E.M.’s Monster album.