The baseball team which is currently known as the Lancaster Jethawks originated in 1947 in Reno as the Silver Sox. Then there followed the Reno Padres, the Riverside Pilots, and at last the name Jethawks came into use in 1996. The Lancaster-based team (California) owes its named to the city’s aerospace industry.
The 2001 logo shows a jet with a characteristic hawk head and the team’s name with the word “JetHawks” written in a retro style. The jet is flying up in the night sky.
The very first logo of the Lancaster Jethawks club was introduced in 2001. It was a bright and futuristic badge with a blue started background, and a spaceship above the main wordmark, which was written in rounded letters of a custom font, in white, with two letters, “J” and “H” enlarged and colored in calm gold. Above the large wordmark, there was a “Lancaster” inscription with white sans-serif letters placed on red vertically oriented ovals in black outlines. The thin gold “Baseball” tagline was written in a classic sans-serif, completing the image.