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Baseball Bats That Brings out the Animal
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Through the years there have
been a number of sporting goods,
and woodworking companies that used
the image of an animal in their
logo, or baseball bat brandings.
Some retail stores had baseball
bats made to promote their
products, that also featured
animals. In this months newsletter
I thought it would be fun to take a
look at some of these baseball bat
brandings.
 Dog - Established in 1840, D&M, the Draper and Maynard
Company featured the "Lucky Dog"
logo. D&M was a major supplier of
baseball equipment for both amateur
and professional teams. The
business closed in Plymouth in 1937
after the death of John Maynard.
That same year P. Goldsmith Sons
Company of Cincinnati, Ohio,
purchased the rights to produce
sporting goods bearing the
Draper-Maynard name and Lucky Dog
trademark. Goldsmith stopped
manufacturing Draper-Maynard
products in 1962 when they merged
with MacGregor Sporting Goods.
Cat - Recognized as being one of the largest hardware
companies in the South,
Keith-Simmons & Company of
Nashville Tennessee featured a Cat
for their baseball bat branding. The
company carried a large line of
hardware, edge tools, mill
supplies, house furnishings,
automotive supplies, saddlery, and
Sporting goods. Their 1925 catalog
devoted 38 pages to sporting goods,
that included baseballs, gloves and
bats made by the A.J. Reach sporting
goods company.
 Camel - There are two companies that use a camel in their
baseball bat branding. Founded by
Michael Ross Campbell in 1870, the
M.R. Campbell Co. featured a Camel
in one of their center brands.
Starting as a hub & spoke company
in Tullahoma, Tenn, the company
manufactured automobile parts,
carriages and buggy shafts. M.R.
Campbell entered the baseball bat
market by the 1920's. Just as the
JF Hillerich Company did, they
began to manufacturer baseball bats
from wagon tongues that had been
used for covered wagons. The
company remained in operation until
1935.
The Columbus Cycle & sporting goods Company of Columbus Ohio also featured
a camel as their center brand. The
company specialized in bicycle
sales that were manufactures by
companies such as Schwinn, who then
placed the Columbus Cycle &
sporting goods badge on the bike.
The store also features a full line
of sporting goods, and had this
Columbus Cycle Co., Camel branded
baseball bat made for them. In 1899
the American Bycicle Company
purchased the Columbus Cycle Co.
Columbus O. along with a large
number of other small cycle
businesses. In 1985 The company was
purchased by Louisville businessman
William B. Bellis Sr.
 Bat - There were also two companies that featured a bat
on their bat. Makes sense. The
Hanna Manufacturing Company (Hanna
Batrite) of Athens, Georgia, was
established in 1911. They were known
for making handles for shovels,
hand tools and farm implements.
Sometime around 1925 they started
to make toy bats. Their first and
earliest center brands featured the
"Flying Bat Logo." By 1927 the
company was manufacturing baseball
bats for professional baseball
players such as Ty Cobb, and Babe
Ruth. In 1937 the Buke Batrite
Flying Bat logo was removed and
replaced with the branded Hanna Batrite center brand.
 Founder of The Original Maple Bat Corporation, Sam Holman introduced the
"Sam Bat" to professional baseball
in 1997. Bill Mackenzie, a
professional league scout and
friend complained to Sam, that too
many of the Ash Bats were breaking.
He asked Sam if he could come up
with a better baseball bat.
Sam
took on the challenge and came up
with the use of Maple. Made in
Sam's garage, the first prototype
was made from a maple stair
banister. Sam brought the bat to
Ottawa Lynx Stadium for a tryout,
and it was a success. Pete Mackanin
a coach for the Montreal Expos
told Sam, “If you want to get the
bat back you better put your name
on it." Holman wrote Sam Bat. Thus the
name “Sam Bat” with the Flying Bat
Logo, was born.
 Bull
- After the US embargo in 1958,
Cuba was forced to produce its own
sports equipment. The Cubans
quickly learned to make respectable
baseballs, bats, gloves, and shoes,
under the government
brand name Batos. The
company takes its name from a ball
game that indigenous people of Cuba
played. The Tainos and Ciboney
Indians had a game played with a
bat and ball, which the Ciboney
called Batos. The crude center
Brand oval is centered by a bull,
with "BATOS" above, and below
"HECHO EN CUBA" which translates to
Made In Cuba. The company still
exists today.
There were three shoe companies that were truly
"for the birds." The
three companies had promotional
baseball bats made for them that
featured a Goose, a Chicken, and a
Parrot. Birds of a feather sell
shoes together.
Goose - Established in 1869 in St. Louis, the
Red Goose
Shoes company lasted nearly a
century before merging with the
International Shoe Company, which
later bought Florsheim. During Red
Goose's latter years, they had a
promotional baseball bat produced
for them with "Friedman Shelby All
Leather Shoes," as the center
brand, while the barrel featured a
goose illustration with the "Red
Goose Shoes" branding.
 Chicken -
"Peters Weatherbird Shoes For Both
Boys & Girls" The Peters Shoe
Company, established in 1892 by
Henry William Peters of
St. Louis, used the Weatherbird
image for promotions from 1907 to
1932. The Weatherbird was a cartoon
character in a comic strip that was
first published in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch newspaper in 1901.
Drawn by Harry B. Martin the
Weatherbird logo was used on many
promotional items such as whistles,
Clickers, noisemakers, and
baseball
bats. By the 1940's Peters Shoes
used a new "Weatherbird" logo of a
Weathervane Chicken (Roster), that was also
used on the baseball bats.
 Parrot
- The Poll Parrot and Star
brands of shoes were two of the
shoe manufacturing and retailing
subsidiaries of Roberts, Johnson &
Rand, a Division of the
International Shoe Company of St.
Louis, Missouri. The bat with the
Star Brand center brand featured
the Poll Parrot logo on the Barrel
which reads: "Poll Parrot Shoes -
For Real Boys" Like Peters Shoes,
both part of International
Shoe Company, there were many
promotional items made such as
whistles, Clickers, noisemakers,
and a baseball bat. There was also
a promotional baseball glove made
featuring the Poll Parrot logo,
that read : Poll Parrot Shoes for
boys and girls"
Deer - In August of 2006 John Deere had Louisville
Slugger create a 30 inch
promotional baseball bat limited to
1,400 made. The model 225YB (Youth
Bat) that came with a letter of
authenticity featured the John
Deere, "Jumping Deer Logo"
Towards the
barrel to the right of the
Louisville Slugger/Powerized
branding. John Deere signature on
the Barrel.
Outside of souvenir
baseball bats made for professional
baseball teams, if you come across
any bats depicting an animal as a
company logo; or have questions on
any unknown brand of baseball bats, please, send pictures to
steve@keymancollectibles.com to
be added to the
Miscalanous & Private branded
baseball Bat Guide.
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