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The Cleveland Indians promised to get rid of the Chief Wahoo logo after the 2018 season. They have officially unveiled their new uniforms for the 2019 season and sure enough, the caricature is ...
The Indians will continue to wear the Wahoo logo in 2018, and even after it is gone from the uniform, the club will sell merchandise featuring the mascot in the Cleveland area.
Citing a goal of diversity and inclusion, Manfred said in a statement provided to the New York Times that the Indians organization “ultimately agreed with my position that the logo is no longer ...
From 1915-27, the team wore uniforms with the word "Cleveland" or a stylistic "C" logo. The lone exception was 1921, when they wore a uniform with "Worlds Champions" on the chest in honor of their ...
The Cleveland Indians will be removing "Chief Wahoo," the bright red caricature of a Native American the team uses as a logo, from players' caps and uniforms starting in 2019.
What a difference a century makes. The Cleveland Plain Dealer called for the Cleveland Indians to get rid of its "Chief Wahoo" logo in an editorial Friday morning for being "racially insensitive ...
Logo has been criticised as racist to Native Americans. ... The Cleveland Indians baseball team will stop using a logo long criticised as being offensive to Native Americans.
In 1951, the Indians made a change to Chief Wahoo, giving his face a smaller nose and red skin. This version of the logo is very close to the one that has been used by the team in recent years.
The franchise has gone by the name Indians since 1915, but sports franchises are increasingly under criticism for using names, logos and uniform design elements that reference Native Americans.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The first time I wrote a column about the need for the Indians to change their Chief Wahoo logo was in 1998. I couldn’t find an online version, but it’s reprinted in my ...