INDIANS REMOVE CHIEF WAHOO FROM SLEEVE
The Cleveland Indians have removed the Chief Wahoo logo from the sleeve of their uniforms for a fourgame series in Toronto.
The decision to nix the logo was partially driven by a failed legal challenge against the team when it played in Toronto during the 2016 AL Championship Series. While Cleveland played the Blue Jays, a lawsuit was filed to have the logo and team name banned from Canadian TV. A judge dismissed the case.
The Indians have said they will permanently remove the logo from their uniforms next season. The move came after decades of protests and complaints that the grinning, redfaced caricature that dates to 1947 is racist. Cleveland will host the AllStar Game next season.
In recent years, the team has slowly moved away from the cartoonish image of a bigtoothed American Indian with a scarlet face and a single feather in his headdress. The Indians now use a “C? as their primary logo and have removed signs depicting Chief Wahoo from their home stadium.
The Indians will return to their regular uniforms when they play at Tampa Bay next week.
New Hall of Fame exhibit tells story of catcherspy Moe Berg.
The Baseball Hall of Fame has opened a new exhibit on Moe Berg, the major league catcherturnedspy whose story was the subject of a Hollywood film released this summer.
“Moe Berg: Big League Spy” recently opened at the museum in Cooperstown, New York.
The New York Cityborn son of RussianJewish immigrants was an Ivy League graduate who played more than 660 games over 15 seasons for the Dodgers, White Sox, Indians, Senators and Red Sox. During World War II he joined the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA.
The exhibit chronicles his athletic and espionage exploits through his baseball artifacts and wartime documents.
The movie “The Catcher Was a Spy” was released in June, with Berg portrayed by Paul Rudd.
Berg died in 1972 at 70.
Grand Junction Rockies headed to playoffs.
OREM, UT A H
The Grand Junction Rockies are headed back to the Pioneer League Playoffs after clinching their first playoff berth since 2013 with a 31 win over the Orem Owlz Wednesday night.
The win improves the Rockies to 2314 in the second half, clinching the South Division’s second half title and setting the Rockies up for a South Division Championship Series matchup against the Ogden Raptors which will start Friday night at Lindquist Field.