12-20-2019, 10:25 AM
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Mike Kendall
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Indiana
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Originally Posted by thetahat
One thing I notice about almost all of the pennants from this series is that they have a generic baseball scene somewhere on the pennant. Swinging hitter, sliding runner, maybe just crossed bats. All but the Senators, that is
two versions shown below and neither has them. So I think the SF Giants might be from another maker, who just decided to use the Giant logo
which probably makes it even more cool, not less. I love the font used for the name.
Awhile back I posted this pic which comes from the back of a book published back in 1956
Inside Baseball for Little Leaguers. (I don't own it but a simple google search pulls it up.) This was at least five years *after* the pennants from the series were (first?) made. There you see all the logos from this set of pennants
12 of the 16 that is. There is no (known) Orioles from this set, and the Phillies had drifted away from the blue jay. Notice the Reds logo
I guess they didn't want to put the mad bomber (my avatar!) on a book for kids. Interestingly, that's the logo that Keezer used for their Redlegs pennants.
(EDIT: I just noticed, the one Senators pennant does have a little baseball towards the tip
also noticed that on the book, unlike the pennant, the Dodger bum is identical except that he isn't smoking his cigar!)
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So were these pennants used the same logo but werent part of that series?
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