Cleveland Indians

The Cleveland Indians was the longtime name for Cleveland's Major League Baseball team, from 1914 to 2021 (at which point they were renamed the Cleveland Guardians). Their mascot during that time was Chief Wahoo, a grinning literally redskinned Native American caricature. Even before the team changed names, Chief Wahoo was gradually phased out due to controversy (with a single C being used instead) and retired completely in 2018.
==References==
* The third season Dinosaurs episode "The Discovery," which draws parallels between the cavepeople and Native Americans, concludes with them relocated from their land. However, a baseball stadium has been built on their burial grounds to house the Central Pangaea Cavemen team. The cave elder's image is shown morphing into a variation of Chief Wahoo.
* A Cleveland Indians hat is seen in Milton's bedroom in a sketch with Icky No-No on Muppet Time.
==Merchandise==
The Cleveland Guardians have partnered with Sesame Workshop on occasion to produce officially licensed Sesame Street merchandise.
File:MLB Elmo print-Cleveland Guardians.jpg|print by S. Preston2023
File:SSD 2024 Guardians bobblehead.jpg|Sesame Street Day bobblehead2024
==Muppet Mentions==
* On October 6, 2018, before Game 2 of the American League Divisional Series with the Houston Astros, to celebrate their starting pitcher for the game, Carlos Carrasco, who goes by the nickname "Cookie," the Cleveland Indians' Twitter account posted a video of Cookie Monster from his appearance of Cake Boss getting excited over a giant cookie cake with Carrasco's face superimposed over the cookie. @Indians on Twitter. October 6, 2018
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