Indians/Guardians and the Topps History Police

[BobC]

Originally Posted by packs

The team is based in Cleveland. Hasn't that always been true?

Yes it is true since they joined American League back in 1901. As noted above, the team did actually come from elsewhere first.

I believe Dewey's point/question has to do with how in the past, cards would often refer to a team's name/nickname, and not just the name of the city itself, when giving some prior year or other biographical info about a player on the back of their card. His question would be along the lines of what are they going to do going forward if say they had a bio on the back of a card and mentioned something like how the player won the ROY award several years earlier, before they changed the team name from Indians to Guardians. Are they still going to list it as Indians, since that was the actual team name at the time, or will they now just use Guardians for everything? Or maybe they'll try to skirt and ignore the entire question by just referring to everything as Cleveland from now on that was prior to the name change. I threw in the added question then about using images of players from before the name change as well, and if they would alter and remove any instances of the Indians name or Chief Wahoo on the uniforms, or maybe just be sure to only use images/photos that don't show the Indians name or Chief Wahoo anywhere on them.