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Cleveland Indians to Change Name… Eventually

Cleveland Indians to Change Name… Eventually

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They’ll get to work changing it when they think of a new one.

Cleveland Indians owner Paul Dolan has spent the last several months in multiple prolonged discussions with multiple groups that have advised him to change the name of the team. As the word “Indian,” in reference to Native American folks, has some less-than-savory associations, the team has been repeatedly encouraged to change their name to something else, or at least something a little more culturally sensitive.


Dolan has publicly agreed with this sentiment, saying “the name is no longer acceptable in our world” in an interview with The Associated Press.

However, the team has a conundrum on their hands: they don’t have a replacement name, and Dolan has refused to use some kind of placeholder or interim name until they can choose one. “We don’t want to be the Cleveland Baseball Team or some other interim name,” he said.

For the time being, the Indians will remain named as such through at least the 2021 season, but Dolan expects the big change to come some time after that. “We’ll be the Indians in 2021, and then after that, it’s a difficult and complex process to identify a new name and do all the things you do around activating that name,” Dolan said. “We are going to work at as quick a pace as we can while doing it right.”

Dolan has said that his discussions with the advisory groups were an eye-opening experience for him. “It was a learning process for me, and I think when fair-minded, open-minded people really look at it, think about it and maybe even spend some time studying it, I like to think they would come to the same conclusion. It’s a name that had its time, but this is not the time now, and certainly going forward, the name is no longer acceptable in our world,” Dolan said.

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