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Chief Wahoo was a logo used by the Cleveland Indians (now Guardians), a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1951 to 2018.
Jun 19, 2014 · Chief Wahoo, in the battleground state of Ohio, still splits friends and family across all sorts of boundaries. Why? Because people disagree about what Wahoo really means. In baseball, meaning comes down to history, whether it is numbers in a box score or stories shared over pretzels and beer.
CHIEF WAHOO is a caricature of a Native American that was used from 1947 to 2018 in many facets of the CLEVELAND INDIANS’ uniform. Although the team was renamed the Indians in 1915, and Native American imagery had been used in news coverage of the Indians since approximately 1932, Indians owner Bill Veeck commissioned J.F. Novak Co. in ...
Oct 27, 2016 · Chief Wahoo— a racist caricature of a Native American —remains the logo of the Cleveland Indians despite a campaign by some to get the baseball franchise to finally do away with...
Jan 29, 2018 · Major League Baseball told the New York Times Monday the Indians will stop using the Chief Wahoo icon, a caricature of a Native American character that originated in 1932 or 1947 - depending on...
Jul 27, 2021 · Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team announced late last week that its name would be the Guardians, not the Indians, beginning next season, and the team retired the Chief Wahoo logo from its...
Oct 9, 2018 · Chief Wahoo is history. The controversial logo which has been the primary brand of Cleveland’s Indians for the better part of the last seventy years made its final on-field appearance Monday afternoon; the team swept out of the ALDS at the hands of the Houston Astros.
Aug 9, 2016 · Cleveland’s Chief Wahoo: Why the most offensive image in sports has yet to die. Pedro Rodriguez argues with a Native American activist while dressed as Cleveland Indians logo Chief Wahoo....
Since his debut in 1947, Chief Wahoo has represented the Cleveland Indians. Although the image has long been controversial, recent team victories has brought the logo under closer scrutiny.
Feb 3, 2018 · A controversial logo will be removed from the uniforms of the Cleveland Indians' baseball team for the 2019 season. But the caricature of a red-faced Native American called Chief Wahoo will ...
