Regarding #15: I like this logo. However would you be willing to show me a few more versions of it with our thoughts added in?
Can you eliminate the baseball? Then, treat the center yellow circle like a baseball and run the baseball stitches through the circle and the star. The stitches would be black while over the gold circle and gold while going over the black star. I hope that makes sense. Keep the colors as they are.
Could you also do one like that but make the colors red, white and blue. Blue "Baseball" and circle White "Junior Day" Red where the gold is now White star Baseball stitches that are red over the white star and white over the red
I hope this is not too much. It is between this logo and one other. Thanks!
I have been working on your revisions/suggestions and can tell you that when you use the center circle as a color, it no longer reads as a baseball, and it looks wierd, especially having the stitching turn colors across the star... it's very complicated visually.
I have a much better idea I am sure you will like, I will post shortly as soon as I fine tune them :-).
I hear you, but I can tell you that simple is always better.
Remember that when a part of a logo becomes to complicated it becomes the main visual. In our case the ball/star is just an accent element. The main focus is on "Junior Day Baseball". And, now that name pops which is what we want...the star/ball is simply support.