Classic Team Logo of the Day

On the left is the logo of baseball’s Cleveland Indians when they last won the World Series – in 1948. It was the team’s primary logo from 1940 through 1950. On the right is an alternate logo initiated in 1953 and used until 1972 for merchandising purposes. The “merchandising” logo features Chief Wahoo gleefully peering up at … Read More

On the left is the logo of the American Football League’s Dallas Texans, who played in Dallas from the league’s inception in 1960 until 1962, but couldn’t compete with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys. So owner Lamar Hunt moved the franchise to Kansas City in 1963 and they became the Chiefs. It looks like they tried … Read More

This is the logo of another old American Basketball Association team – The Spirits of St. Louis.  They weren’t particularly successful, but had 2 players on their roster who went on to have careers in the NBA – Maurice Lucas, who helped the Portland Trailblazers win an NBA title, and Marvin “Bad News” Barnes, who … Read More

In the 1970s and 80s the Buffalo Sabres’  American Hockey League farm team was located in Cincinnati and known as the Swords. This is their logo.

This is an old Chicago White Sox logo from the 1950s, and was their logo in the famous 1959 “Go Go Sox” season, when they won the American League pennant behind stars like Luis Aparicio, Nellie Fox and pitcher Early Wynn. When the Sox clinched the pennant by beating Cleveland on September 22nd, the city’s fire … Read More

This is an early logo of the Dallas Cowboys’ NFL football team, from the early 1960s, before Tom Landry built them into a powerhouse and transformed them into “America’s Team”. Landry was the team’s first  coach, when they entered the league in 1960, and remained the coach until being unceremoniously dumped by owner Jerry Jones in … Read More

OK, this isn’t the normal classic sports logo I would post here but I figured a little publicity to the Rwandan soccer team that shares the name of my domain wouldn’t be a bad thing. (See the “About” page). They were founded in 1968 and have won the Rwandan Premier League 6 times! (Wikkipedia is … Read More

They are pretty much a footnote in sports history, but some interesting things occurred during the short history of the old American Basketball Association’s San Diego Conquistadors. They were rare in that they were an ABA expansion franchise, and their early coaches included former Boston Celtic K.C. Jones, who would go on to coach the … Read More