Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team will change its name to Guardians, the franchise announced Friday, dropping the racially offensive name it has been known as for more than a century.
The change was announced in a video on Twitter narrated by Oscar winner Tom Hanks, who worked in Cleveland early in his acting career and starred in the women’s baseball movie “A League of Their Own.”
The name Guardians is a reference to well-known art deco statues located on the Lorain-Carnegie Bridge, which spans the Cuyahoga River and connects downtown Cleveland to the city’s trendy Ohio City neighborhood. Those statues are known as the “Guardians of Traffic.”
The franchise, which announced the name change in a tweet Friday morning, had long faced pressure from activists locally and nationally to ditch the name “Indians,” which critics said was racist. It had been the baseball club’s name since 1915.
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“Guardians”? Who is going to be the new team mascot, Green Lantern?
Stupid woke cancel culture babies. No normal person should be following or watching any MLB games. If the All Star game move from Georgia to Colorado wasn’t enough, this tops the cake. I no longer follow these over paid politicized pampered babies.
This is a curt wellness for a curt little generational day.
The guy I am used to draw Chief Wahoo when I was a kid and copy the motif. I never sensed it was a misnomer for war. It was not.
I miss it but this I bet changes back in 4 years or less. How deep can our new protest crowd be? Moony days ahead.
How can our new, improved MLB tolerate “American” and National”, two concepts it abhors?
Should have changed from Indians to Warrens.