Slightly OT: Could the Braves and Indians be next?

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07-11-2020, 06:44 PM

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Chris

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Changing the Indians almost seems like a backfire of a move to me. Their name was changed from the Spiders informally at first (as often happened in the early days) to honor their best player Louis Sockalexis a Penobscot Indian and was later formally adopted by the team. I'd rather see more of an emphasis on honoring the man than forgetting what, in this case, is a positive history.

The Sockalexis story has been discredited:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevel...ce_of_the_name

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