Hickory Crawdads Logo PNG
The official date of the Hickory Crawdads, the professional club from the Minor League Baseball, foundation is 1993, however, the history of the team has started much earlier. It turns out, that for several decades, starting in the middle of the 1930s, there were several baseball clubs, playing in the city of Hickory in North Carolina, yet with pauses and switches. And the Crawdads became the first stable and constant Minor League representatives of this town. Today this baseball franchise plays in the Carolina League and has the status of a Single-A team.
Meaning and history
Hickory Crawdads feel pretty confident about the league, as they have managed to earn quite an impressive number of titles over the years. Since the beginning of the 2000s, the club has won three League titles, four Division titles, and four Second-half titles, which puts it in the category of very strong league competitors.
Founded in 1993, the Hickory Crawdads started as the Class A affiliates of the Chicago White Sox, yet this collaboration only lasted for five seasons. Already in 1999, the Crawdads got new affiliates — Pittsburgh Pirates, and in 2009 the current ones, the legendary Texas Rangers. Those were the Rangers, with whom the Hickory Crawdads have upgraded to High-A class in 2021, and Single-A in 2025.
In terms of visual identity, the Hickory Crawdads baseball club has always been loyal to its “Crawdad” self, as the image of this creature has never left the emblem of the team, even after the major redesign, which was held in 2016.
1993 — 2015
From 1993 to 2015, the Hickory Crawdads logo was based on a large black “H” with a crawdad behind. The creature was the team’s official mascot, Conrad the Crawdad.
2016 — Today
While preserving Conrad the Crawdad as the focal point, the updated logo depicts it in a different way. Now, Conrad is holding a baseball in both the claws, and there’s the full name of the team in front of him. The emblem was redesigned by Studio Simon.
Colors
Apart from red and light blue, the palette doesn’t contain any bright colors. Black and white are used as secondary colors.
