Known as the Indians since 1915, Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team will now be called the Guardians. The baseball club announced the name change on Friday with a video on Twitter narrated by actor Tom Hanks, ending months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop logos and names considered racist.
The choice of Guardians will undoubtedly be criticized by many of the club’s diehard fans. The organization spent most of the past year whittling down a list of potential names that was at nearly 1,200 just over a month ago.
But the process quickly accelerated and the club landed on Guardians. Read more: Norway beach handball team fined for wearing shorts, not bikini bottoms
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