Not Cleveland, of course. It’s Spokane of the class-A Northwest League, which is an affiliate of the Texas Rangers. They have eschewed offensive caricatures and misplaced iconography for years, but now they have taken it one step further: their primary logo -- developed in consultation with the Spokane Indian tribe -- is now an “S” with “Spokane Indians” spelled out in the Salish language of the Spokane people.
There was a story about it in Indian Country Today at the end of December, talking about how and why it came about. Amazingly, it involved reasonable people doing reasonable things like not trafficking on racist logos and stereotypes and being respectful of one another. Imagine.
Of course the Cleveland Indians, Washington Redskins and other teams with racist overtones to their Native American mascots and logos couldn’t possibly do this. It’d be unthinkable. For some reason.
(thanks to Rob Neyer for the heads up)
