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[edit] DescriptionMajor League Baseball's white-silhouetted swinger presumably preparing to smash a pine-tar free mistake pitch has represented the sport since 1969. Most logos are quiet fellows, not doing much beyond spreading the good word about its sport, but baseball's logo is different. Baseball's logo is arguably the most silently controversial piece of significant sports art. For several years, there was a controversy about the real author of the MLB logo. Two designers, Jerry Dior and James Sherman, claimed to be the authors. However, subsequently Sherman stated that he had made a mistake and his emblem, although looking very similar to Dior’s one, had been created about 10 years later. Jerry Dior created the Major League Baseball logo in 1968. He claimed the task took him not more than a single afternoon. His purpose was to design an abstract image of a baseball player, an emblem that would not include any indications of the player’s ethnic background or dominating hand. Quite a few people believed that the MLB symbol was modeled on one of the most famous Major League Baseball players, Harmon Clayton Killebrew. Shortly before his retirement, Killebrew, often called “The Killer”, was the second best player in American League home runs. He has been in the Hall of Fame since 1984. So, in the cold light of the day, Killebrew could have become a decent model for the Major League Baseball logo. However, according to Jerry Dior, the author of the emblem, he used photographs of several players because his aim was to steer clear of anything that could indicate the player’s background or appearance. The controversy over the authorship of the MLB emblem lasted several years. Having seen the emblem for the first time, the comic book illustrator James Sherman noticed that it looked very similar to the logo he had designed earlier. So, he claimed, the design had been stolen from him. However, in the course of time the controversy was resolved. In late 2008, the ESPN writer Paul Lukas contacted James Sherman and asked him when he had designed his logo. Sherman answered that it took place in the early 1980s. However, the MLB logo actually debuted much earlier, in the 1969 season. So, although Sherman’s design was very similar to the one used by Major League Baseball, he was not the real author as he created his emblem later. [edit] Sources[edit] LicenseMLB Official Info: Terms of Use (12 Feb 2016). "Fair Use Doctrine" applies to reproduction and use of this image and information. No copyright permission requested, granted or needed under the authority of 17 U.S.C. § 107. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use, the following four factors have been considered: (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. No other transfer of this license should be presumed or taken.
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