Slightly OT: Could the Braves and Indians be next?

[Tabe]

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

[howard38]

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[Republicaninmass]

Scotch tape
..next on the list

Using a tartan?

[Beansballcardblog]

I knew I shouldn’t read this thread, yet I did.

Dang you, Rich! We gonna have to talk next time I see you!

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by howard38

Sockalexis was never close to being the best player on the team either.

You mean the guy who played less than half the team's games in 1897, while hitting 45 points below the team leader wasn't the team's best player? Maybe it was the 28 games of .236 hitting the next two years that sealed the deal.