Q 01/05

Which team's logo, drawn by an art history student, hides its initials inside a baseball glove?

A) Philadelphia Phillies

B) Milwaukee Brewers

C) Boston Red Sox

D) Detroit Tigers

Answer · why

B) Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers' ball-in-glove logo forms its mitt from the letters 'M' and 'B'. Tom Meindel, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Clair...

Q 02/05

The Yankees' interlocking 'NY' was first struck on an 1877 police medal made by which jeweler?

A) Gorham & Co.

B) Harry Winston

C) Tiffany & Co.

D) Black, Starr & Frost

Answer · why

C) Tiffany & Co.

Tiffany & Co. designed the monogram for a medal of valor given to John McDowell, a New York City police officer shot in the line of duty. The ball clu...

Q 03/05

Which animal became the Philadelphia Athletics' emblem after rival manager John McGraw mocked them?

A) A camel

B) A rhinoceros

C) A buffalo

D) An elephant

Answer · why

D) An elephant

An elephant became the badge after McGraw sneered that the club's backer had a 'white elephant on his hands'. The team took the insult as a mascot and...

Q 04/05

Legend wrongly claims the New York Yankees adopted pinstripes to make which slugger look slimmer?

A) Babe Ruth

B) Lou Gehrig

C) Mickey Mantle

D) Joe DiMaggio

Answer · why

A) Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth gets the credit in the legend, but the stripes came first. The Yankees tried pinstripes in 1912 and made them permanent soon after Jacob Rup...

Q 05/05

Designer Alan Siegel based which league's 1969 player-silhouette logo on MLB's batter logo?

A) The NFL

B) The NBA

C) The NHL

D) The ABA

Answer · why

B) The NBA

The NBA wanted a family resemblance to baseball, so its logo copied the red and blue blocks around a white silhouette. Its player model was Jerry West...