Indians/Guardians and the Topps History Police

[steve B]

Originally Posted by todeen

Personally, I'm glad they changed the name of the Indians and Redskins. And how they incorporate team names on cards is unimportant when compared to belittling an entire population of US Citizens. MLB took far too long to do what was right; it should have happened decades ago.

If Topps wants to just state Cleveland on the back of a card, no one is going to be confused. Records and histories move with franchises. This is nothing different.

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I have mixed feelings about it.
In some ways it's further erasing that population of American citizens (who in some ways are citizens of two nations (or more) on the same land. *

As one chief put it several years ago
"The day a sports team name is my peoples biggest problem will be a very happy day. "(may have the exact quote wrong, but it's pretty close)
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* In CT, the state couldn't prevent foxwoods casino because it was on land federally recognized as belonging to a tribe. As such it was not US territory!
The independent governor was very anti gambling. What he did do was use a very little used piece of the CT constitution that said he could make a treaty with a foreign nation. So he did, granting the tribe exclusive rights to have slot machines in CT for something like 5 million. The legislature wouldn't act because they had a defecit, and it was a bit of money. And just before the election the tribe publicly said they'd had a much better than expected year and gifted the state something like 40 million as a thank you for the treaty that effectively kept other casinos out of the state.