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Could the New York Yankees’ famous “bat in the hat” emblem — perhaps the most famous logo in sports — have first been scrawled on a bar napkin around 1947 at the 21 Club, for a team owner who had bellied up to the bar?
That is the claim put forth by the family of Sam Friedman, an artist employed at 21 during the ’40s and ’50s, a time when Dan Topping, a co-owner of the Yankees, was a regular patron.
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