Gabe Pinciotti was born in 1928. One of Gabe's most famous works is the original Toledo Mud Hen logo designed in 1964. His love for baseball is the inspiration for the caricatures of Muddy enjoying America's favorite past time. Gabe's commercial art career started at Kaiser Jeep as an artist which led him to a job at Craft Master, designing packaging for Paint by Numbers and then to the Academy group, a local advertising agency. Gabe and his wife Lucy were married for over 61 years.