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The Major League Baseball logo. The Major League Baseball logo was designed by Jerry Dior in 1968 and was included on all on-field uniforms of Major League Baseball (MLB) employees beginning in the 1969 season.
Designer of the MLB Logo: While working at a New York design firm in 1968, Dior created the silhouette of a batter that has become synonymous with Major League Baseball.
The 1968 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 10 to October 10, 1968. It was the final year of baseball's pre-expansion era, in which the teams that finished in first place in each league went directly to the World Series to face each other for the "World Championship."
The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) were an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.The Oakland Athletics competed in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division from 1968 until 2024.
June 7, 1968: 1968 Major League Baseball draft. Oscar Gamble was drafted by the Cubs in the 16th round. Player signed June 18, 1968. [4] Paul Reuschel was drafted by the Cubs in the 4th round of the Secondary Phase. Player signed June 17, 1968. [5] June 14, 1968: Ramón Hernández was purchased from the Cubs by the St. Louis Cardinals. [1]
The 1968 Washington Senators season was the eighth in the expansion team's history, and it saw the Senators finish tenth and last in the ten-team American League with a record of 65 wins and 96 losses. The club also finished 20th and last in MLB attendance, with a total of 564,661 fans, [1] a decrease of about 206,000 from 1967.
The 1969 Montreal Expos season was the inaugural season in Major League Baseball for the team. The Expos, as typical for first-year expansion teams, finished in the cellar of the National League East with a 52–110 record, 48 games behind the eventual World Series Champion New York Mets.
June 7 – In the 1968 Major League Baseball draft, the Los Angeles Dodgers select Steve Garvey, Ron Cey, Bill Buckner, Bobby Valentine, Joe Ferguson and Doyle Alexander. All, save Valentine (whose brilliant future is torpedoed by a broken leg in 1973), become stars; Garvey, Cey and Ferguson anchor Los Angeles' four-time NL pennant winners ...