{"id":458518,"date":"2018-01-29T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458518"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T09:14:51","slug":"indians-removing-chief-wahoo-logo-from-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458518","title":{"rendered":"Indians removing Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"In this April 8, 2014 photo, the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo is shown on the uniform sleeve of third base coach Mike Sarbaugh during a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in Cleveland, Ohio\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"416088\" data-portal-copyright=\"THE CANADIAN PRESS\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wahoo750-1.jpg\" title=\"In this April 8, 2014 photo, the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo is shown on the uniform sleeve of third base coach Mike Sarbaugh during a baseball game against the San Diego Padres in Cleveland, Ohio\" \/><\/p>\n<p> CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cleveland Indians are removing the divisive Chief Wahoo logo from their jerseys and caps starting in the 2019 season. <\/p>\n<p> Following numerous discussions with Major League Baseball and Commissioner Rob Manfred, the Indians will no longer wear the big-toothed, smiling, red-faced caricature during games. The iconic logo, which has been used in various expressions by the team since 1947, has been deemed racist and offensive by some. <\/p>\n<p> Manfred said the team conveyed to him that some fans have a \u201clong-standing attachment\u201d to the logo, but the Indians agreed that it\u2019s \u201cno longer appropriate for on-field use.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The Indians will wear the Wahoo logo this season and continue to sell merchandise featuring it. <\/p>\n<p> Under growing pressure, the team has been transitioning away from Chief Wahoo in recent years. The Indians introduced a block \u201cC\u201d insignia on their caps and have removed stadium signs with the Wahoo logo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>CLEVELAND \u2014 The Cleveland Indians are removing the divisive Chief Wahoo logo from their jerseys and caps starting in the 2019 season. Following numerous discussions <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=458518\" title=\"Indians removing Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458522,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458518\/revisions\/458522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}