Classic Team Logo of the Day

Logo of an old minor league baseball franchise that played in the Class AA Eastern League from 1994 until 2003, the New Haven Ravens. They were affiliated with the Colorado Rockies, and won the Eastern League championship in 2000. The team was sold and relocated to Manchester, New Hampshire in 2004, and became the New … Read More

Logo of the Ottawa Nationals, a hockey team that played in the old World Hockey Association for one season in 1972-73. The franchise bombed at the box office in Ottawa to the point where they finished the year by playing their playoff series in Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens. They were referred to as the Ontario … Read More

Logo of the National Football League’s Washington Redskins, used from 1965 until 1969. The team was coached by NFL legend Otto Graham for most of this era, but Graham’s greatness as a player did not carry over to coaching, as the club was a losing team. In 1969 they hired Vince Lombardi to replace Graham … Read More

For their inaugural season in the National Basketball Association in 1970-71, this was the logo of the Buffalo Braves, who entered the league that year as one of three expansion teams, along with the Portland Trailblazers and Cleveland Cavaliers. The team’s first head coach was Hall of Famer Dolph Schayes, and they were able to … Read More

Logo of a minor league baseball team that plays in the Class A Midwest League, the Great Lakes Loons. The club is located in Midland, Michigan and affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Five former Loons have made it to the big leagues, including Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw and Cleveland catcher Carlos Santana. Like most … Read More

Logo of the Minnesota North Stars, who played in the National Hockey League from 1967 until moving to Dallas in 1993. This logo was used from the team’s inception in ’67, when they joined the NHL along with 5 other expansion teams, (doubling the league’s size from 6 teams, known as the “original six”, to … Read More

Logo of a team that played in the Arena Football League from 1995 until 2000, the Iowa Barnstormers. The team played their home games in the Des Moines Veterans Memorial Coliseum, affectionately known to their fans as “The Barn”. The team is most famous for producing an alumnus who went on to greatness in the … Read More

Logo of another women’s pro basketball team, the WNBA’s Detroit Shock, who played in the league from 1998 until 2009, when they were relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The club was the sister team to the NBA Pistons, and was one of the league’s most successful franchises, winning three championships in their Detroit era. Their first coach … Read More

Minor league baseball features many unique team names with creative logos, and this one, belonging to the Batavia Muckdogs of the New York-Penn League, is one of them. The club is currently affiliated with the St. Louis Cardinals, but from their inception in 1988 until 2006, they were the Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. Before the … Read More

Logo of the Baltimore Blades, a nomadic franchise  that played in the World Hockey Association for part of one season in 1974-75. The club, which played as the Los Angeles Sharks from 1972 until ’74,  started out the ’74 season as the Michigan Stags but folded in January of ’75, moving to Baltimore, where they were operated … Read More