Since last week's announcement that the Cleveland Major League Baseball team would be changing their team name to the Guardians, there has been a lot of (usually ill informed) discussion about the link between the Penobscot citizen Louis Sockalexis and the team's "Indians" moniker. Sockalexis broke baseball's color barrier long before Jackie Robinson, when he played for the Cleveland Spiders. Still, the story that he is the inspiration behind the name "Indians" is, as history usually is, much more convoluted and contradictory than it might appear. This article does the best job I've seen of taking a deep dive into the truth.
Louis Sockalexis of the Cleveland Spiders
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