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Cleveland Indians/Guardians President of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti made an appearance on the Starkville podcast this morning co-hosted by Jayson Stark and Doug Glanville to talk baseball and (of most interest to us) the process behind the name change. Antonetti went into great detail on the entire process involved in
Fresh off the heels of the MLB at Field of Dreams game, baseball’s set to host it’s *other* annual small stadium, small town, neutral site game, the 2021 Little League Classic this Sunday, August 22nd. Held during each non-2020 season since 2017, the Little League Classic pits two clubs against
Recent conversations about the use of Native American imagery in sports brands have been adversarial, at best. The now-former name of the football team in Washington, DC, was an actual racial slur. The Cleveland Indians used a cartoon caricature of a Native American as a logo for decades. Fans of
The plan that the city of Indianapolis is based on is centered (as it were) around a site called Monument Circle. Originally called Circle Street in the 1821 plan, it now includes the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, four bronze statues of notable Indiana figures, a staircase, two water pools, and
Chief Wahoo is history. The controversial logo which has been the primary brand of Cleveland’s Indians for the better part of the last seventy years made its final on-field appearance Monday afternoon; the team swept out of the ALDS at the hands of the Houston Astros. Sure, it’s possible the
An unscheduled Turn Ahead the Clock game was played last night in Toronto as the Cleveland Indians took to the field wearing, what we can probably assume, is their new road uniform for the 2019 season. Chief Wahoo was absent, entirely, from the team’s uniform – not on the cap,
Players typically get to play a role as to what team goes on their Baseball Hall of Fame cap, sometimes the Hall will overrule their choice (Wade Boggs chose the Tampa Bay Devil Rays afterall) but in the case of a guy like Vladimir Guerrero where it’s more of a
Turns out the Cleveland Indians are a pretty good ball team. With yesterday’s win over the Detroit Tigers the Indians broke an American League record with 21 consecutive victories. Incredible! The win squared them with the 1935 Chicago Cubs who held the Major League record for longest winning streak without
It seems Cleveland Indians owner Paul Dolan isn’t ready to drop Chief Wahoo quite yet, despite some prodding from the league. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, during an appearance as a speaker, Dolan said “[the league and the team] are not exactly aligned on [Chief Wahoo’s] future, but we
The Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians will be marking the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Chicago White Sox World Championship by wearing these special throwback uniforms for their game on Saturday, July 29. Chicago’s uniform is white with a stars-and-stripes themed “Sox” logo on the chest and an American
Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred was in Cleveland yesterday to announce that the city would play host to the 2019 MLB All-Star Game… but before that he had an important chat with Cleveland Indians owners Paul Dolan and John Sherman regarding the team’s continued use of their controversial “Chief
During their playoff run towards representing the American League in the 2016 World Series, the Cleveland Indians caught a lot of attention due to the fact that they preferred to wear their navy alternate uniforms for the vast majority of postseason play. This meant that the infamous Chief Wahoo logo
