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    Why did the Cleveland Guardians change their team name?

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    The 2024 Cleveland Guardians are making a playoff run under first-year manager Stephen Vogt, with star third baseman Jose Ramirez and an elite bullpen doing the heavy lifting to get them to an ALCS showdown with the mighty New York Yankees.

    But just a few years ago, the Cleveland MLB team went by a different name, with logos to match. For more than 100 years, the Major League Baseball team in Cleveland used Native American terms and logos.

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    But as criticism from Native American communities and elsewhere continued to mount that the use of the statues as a team mascot was offensive and disparaging, Major League Baseball and Cleveland opted to make change.

    Cleveland made the move to the Guardians in 2021 after initially retiring the mascot and logo but still using the original nickname.

    Their first season with the Guardians came the following season in 2022.

    Actor and Cleveland baseball fan Tom Hanks was even part of the name change announcement at the time.

    What is the origin of the name Cleveland Guardians? What are the Guardians named after?

    The Guardians are named after the Art Deco statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge near Progressive Field in Cleveland.

    The images are known as the “Guardians of Traffic” or “Guardians of Transportation.”

    Some other names reportedly in dispute included “Spiders” (an earlier team name from the 19th century), “Rockers”, and “Blues”.

    The Cleveland Guardians were sued over their name change, but not by who you might think

    A lawsuit had been filed against the Cleveland Guardians over the name change. But they weren’t angry fans.

    Instead it was a local roller derby team.

    The two sides resolved the dispute.

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