Cleveland Baseball Team Adopts Guardians Name, Drops Indians
- Video with Tom Hanks reveals new moniker, starting next year
- Shift joins other reassessments of Native American names
Progressive field during a Cleveland Indians a Home Opener in Cleveland, Ohio in 2019.
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Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians will be known as the Cleveland Guardians beginning in 2022, after saying last year that the team would review the name it’s had for more than a century.
The team announced the name change in a video posted Friday morning. It also has a new logo: a winged baseball adorned with the letter G.