scorecard from yesteryear
Say goodbye to the Cleveland Indians and Chief Wahoo. Claire Russel at Liberty Headlines reports:
MLB’s Cleveland Indians to Change
Team Name, Mascot
The Cleveland Indians baseball team
said on Sunday that the team will change its name, citing concerns over racial
division and tension.
“I know in the past, when I’ve been
asked about, whether it’s our name or the Chief Wahoo, I think I would usually
answer and say I know that we’re never trying to be disrespectful,” said
the team’s manager, Terry Francona, according to CNN.
“And I still feel that way,” he
continued. “But I don’t think that’s a good enough answer today. I think it’s
time to move forward. It’s a very difficult subject. It’s also delicate.”
The baseball team announced last
week that it was considering changing its name, since its “among the most
visible ways in which we connect with the community.”
The team had previously
removed its “Chief Wahoo” logo, a caricature of a Native American that
activists argued was racist.
The team name, however, was in part
a tribute to the success of Louis Sockalexis, a former Native American star in
Cleveland, according to Cleveland Magazine.
Despite this, the
team admitted that its name does not “advance social justice and equality.”
Suggestions from our household include the Cleveland Worms
or the Cleveland Cave-Dwellers.
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