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The Cleveland Indians Just Picked Their New Name & Had Tom Hanks Announce It

They've been debating the change for months.

The Cleveland Indians Picked A New Name & Tom Hanks Helped Announce It
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Western Canada Editor

Cleveland's Major League Baseball team has a new name, and they've called on Tom Hanks to introduce it to the world.

The team has been known as the Cleveland Indians since 1915, but after months of internal discussions, and following a reckoning by sports teams to drop names considered racist, they have finally settled on their new name — the Guardians.


In an announcement posted by the team on Twitter on Friday, July 23, narrator Tom Hanks (who spent time in his early days acting in Ohio) explains how Cleveland is "a city on the rise" that is "forging into the future from [its] ironed-out past."

Then, announcing the change, he adds: "It's time to unite as one family, one community, to build the next era for this team and this city."

In 2018, the team decided to stop using the Chief Wahoo logo, which has long offended many Indigenous people and allies alike, on its jerseys and caps.

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  • Daniel Milligan
    Western Canada Editor Daniel Milligan was the Western Canada Editor at Narcity Canada. He was responsible for developing trending news strategies and managing a team of writers and editors. Originally from the U.K., Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in journalism from Staffordshire University. Over the past decade, he has worked on major news stories including terror attacks in London, England, and Manchester, along with royal weddings, Brexit developments, the Canadian federal election and the Nova Scotia mass shooting. Daniel was a senior editor and newsroom leader at Trinity Mirror, one of the U.K.'s largest regional news websites. He would later move to Toronto and work at Yahoo Canada and CTV News/CTV National News.

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