Major League Baseball Productions

1st Logo (1977-1980)
Logo: On a black background, the Major League Baseball logo zooms out. Then the text Impact

fades in below the logo.

Variant: Sometimes, the text below the logo will look like this ©MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PRODUCTIONS [YEAR]

Technique: Appears to be cel animation.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the program (in the case of This Week in Baseball, it's "Gathering Crowds", composed by Mike Vickers).

Availability: Seen on MLB programs at the time, including early episodes of the original version of This Week in Baseball.

2nd Logo (1981-1993?)
Logo: On a black background, the outline of the Major League Baseball logo zooms in while leaving a limited ray of trails and then a white dot zooms into the bottom left corner of the logo also leaving a trail. Afterward, the colors fade into the logo and the red text MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PRODUCTIONS vertically wipes in below the logo.

Variant: Sometimes, the text below the logo will look like this ©MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PRODUCTIONS [YEAR] or ©[YEAR] MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PRODUCTIONS

Technique: Cel animation.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of the program.

Availability: Seen on later episodes of This Week in Baseball.

3rd Logo (March 19, 2002-2008?)
Logo: A CGI version of the MLB logo zooms in on a black background. Below, the words "MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL" fade in and zoom out, emitting blue rays of light. "PRODUCTIONS" appears in the same fashion. Both words stop as the rays of light fade out and the MLB logo stops, and the text ends up arranged like this: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PRODUCTIONS The logo shines. Copyright information blurs in below, usually during the animation.

Technique: CGI animation.

Music/Sounds: The closing theme of Yankeeography.

Availability: Seen on Yankeeography. It is left intact on YES Network reruns.