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Indians Will Abandon Chief Wahoo Logo Next Year
The Cleveland Indians will stop using the Chief Wahoo logo on their uniforms
beginning in 2019, according to Major League Baseball, which said the popular
symbol was no longer appropriate for use on the field.
Chief Wahoo, a cartoonish caricature of a Native American that has assumed
several forms over the years, first appeared on the Indians’ uniforms in
1948. In recent decades various groups across North America have appealed to
the team to renounce the logo, to no avail. But over the past year the
commissioner of baseball, Rob Manfred, has pressured Paul Dolan, Cleveland’s
chairman and chief executive, to make a change.
Citing a goal of diversity and inclusion, Manfred said in a statement
provided to The New York Times that the Indians organization “ultimately
agreed with my position that the logo is no longer appropriate for on-field
use in Major League Baseball, and I appreciate Mr. Dolan’s acknowledgment
that removing it from the on-field uniform by the start of the 2019 season is
the right course.”
根據這篇紐時的報導，印地安人隊2019年起將不再使用Chief Wahoo隊徽。
去年Manfred主席就曾要求印地安人隊更換隊徽，認為此頭像已不適合做為場上的logo。
印地安人球團已同意這個立場，2019年將更換Logo(包括球場內、制服上的標誌)。
Chief Wahoo第一次出現在印地安人球衣上是1948年，
部分人士與團體認為此頭像帶有對美洲原住民的歧視與刻板印象。
現在這個隊徽即將走入歷史~