Cleveland Indians

Beer flowed and a little blood and bruises followed. There was some baseball played in between.

The team will become the Cleveland Guardians in 2022 after a long push to abandon a name Indigenous activists fought for years to change.

Terry Pluto looks back on Lenny Barker's perfect game 40 years ago, the last time a Cleveland pitcher recorded a no-hitter.

Francona's latest setback in a series of health problems has Cleveland's baseball team uncertain whether the skipper will be able to return next season.

Updated: 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 Cleveland’s Major League Baseball club has reached a deal with Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to extend the team’s lease for another 15 years, with the possibility of a 10-year renewal after that. The agreement will cost the city and county $17 million annually, according to a news release from the team and local governments. The state will chip in $2 million a year, and the team will pay $10 million annually. All told, the deal will cost about $435 million over the 15-year life of the lease.

Now that Cleveland's baseball team has selected its new name, sports commentator Terry Pluto has details behind the process.

Like the name or not, here come the Cleveland Guardians. Cleveland fans were still taking stock of the new name before the game Friday, just hours after the ball club announced it would shed the name Indians for a new identity as the Guardians.

The Cleveland baseball team has a new name. The club will be changing its name to the Guardians.

Mudcat Grant pitched for Cleveland when the league was still deeply segregated and went on to make history.

Terry Pluto offers some insight into Cleveland's name search by looking at the process the Cavs and the Akron Rubberducks went through most recently.