Batavia Muckdogs are definitely a club with one of the most aggressive and brutal visual identities in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. Founded at the end of the 1930s, since 2021 the team has been a member of the West Division of the PGCBL, which is quite a young summer league, composed of 16 teams from all over the United States. Before that, for the most part of its history, the Muckdogs played in the New York — Penn League, which was shut in 2020.
The Batavia Muckdogs are the Short-Season Class-A affiliate of the Miami Marlins. The team based in the city of Batavia (Genesee County, New York) plays in the New York-Penn League.
The current official logo of Batavia Muckdogs was introduced in 1998 and stayed unchanged for more than twenty years. The badge boasts a cool caricature of the club’s mascot, drawn in a brown and black color palette with a light accent on the animal’s evil grin. The Muckdog depicted on the Batavia Muckdogs logo is an imaginary creature symbolizing the agricultural heritage of the team’s neighborhoods.
The logo depicts a fierce brown dog stuck on a wooden fence. The fence forms the letter “M.” The two words of the team’s name in grey are positioned above and below the main design.
The word “Muckdog” derives from the term “mucklands,” which is used to refer to dark, very fertile soil. Batavia is surrounded by mucklands. Also, local people like to tell legends of feral dogs who lived on the mucklands. When the franchise’s creative team was in search of a new brand identity, they came across these legends and decided to make them the base of the new name and logo.