"We're on a river, and I like bats," she told the newspaper. The team debuted the RiverBats logo — a flying mammal, donning a baseball cap and swinging a baseball bat — thereafter.

Several of baseball's 41 approved bat suppliers are making versions of them, from Louisville Slugger and Victus to Chandler and Authentic. "If all of the manufacturers aren't already making them ...

After the new design erupted into the public's attention last weekend, there was an instant surge of interest. “There are 1,500 preorders for a bat that doesn’t exist," one exec said.

Ball-in-glove: 1978-93. Chef's kiss. It's hard to even appreciate now how ahead of its time it was, using hidden imagery in an era when most sports logos were just block letters or little characters.

Ball-in-glove: 1978-93. Chef's kiss. It's hard to even appreciate now how ahead of its time it was, using hidden imagery in an era when most sports logos were just block letters or little characters.