Yokohama DeNA Baystars Now Has A New Logo

Yokohama DeNA Baystars, which became real on December 1st by an acquisition by DeNA, a company runs social game networking service Mobage, announced [J] the new team logo on December 9.

Its "DeNA" part is not so similar with the DeNA's company logo.

DeNA logo

The former logo of Yokohama Baystars was this,

Yokohama Baystars was one of few pro-baseball teams which did not have owner company's name (which is TBS, nation-wide TV broadcasting network company). Most of 12 teams have a company name in it and the owners sponsor teams by seeing it as a part of advertising.

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Author Information  @akky(Akky AKIMOTO) is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for Japan Times, does consultation for foreign companies interested in entering Japanese web market.