This is a welcome and long-overdue change. The Cleveland Guardians will be the team’s fifth Major League name and seventh name since 1900. On July 23, 2021, the Cleveland Indians formally announced next year the team will change its name to the Cleveland Guardians. Name changes are nothing new to this Cleveland team.
From 1903 to 1914 the team was called the Napoleons, which was shortened to Naps, before changing to the Cleveland Indians in 1915. In 1901, after leaving the minor American League for the new Major League, the name was shortened to the Blues, but changed a year later to the Bronchos. After moving from Michigan in 1900, the first Cleveland team was called the Cleveland Lakeshores, then, a year later, the Bluebirds. The Cleveland Indians name has been in use since 1915. Insomniac Studios did not design the new logos. The Cleveland Guardians logos were designed by the Cleveland Guardians’ in-house marketing and graphic design team. He was a very generous man.Note: What follows is an opinion piece on the strengths and weaknesses of new Cleveland Guardians logos and branding. “He built one house for my brother and he built two for me. “And he built the house next door, which was my wife’s parents,” Gene said. Doing all the masonry and carpentry work, he built 28 houses including his home on Sackett Hills Drive. He worked for Italian friends before going off on his own. Happy as homebuilderĬory continued to carve as a hobby, but he found joy as a homebuilder - just like his father. “That tore him up because he couldn’t do anything but fill it up,” Bob said.
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If parishioners look carefully, they can see a patch to the left of the figures. Anthony of Padua holding baby Jesus, a flaw in the stone caused a chunk to fall off. “He worked right through the winter and he didn’t have any means of heating the place.”Ĭory came home upset one day. “He was working on a scaffold there and he had a canvas tent around it,” Bob said. The Fiocca brothers remember visiting their dad outside the church. He carved the stone eagle on the front of the Italian Center on Tallmadge Avenue as well as the relief sculpture above the entrance of St. “When they would get an order for a fancy piece for a customer, they would call my father and he would go to their shop on Tallmadge Avenue and do the carving,” Gene said.Ĭory created works of art that can still be seen on North Hill. And he dropped the paper and looked at me and I knew I was in trouble.” “I let it fly and that damn thing went right through that paper. “One day he was reading the Sunday paper in the living room and I was in the dining room and I saw this rubber band, so I put it over my two fingers,” he said. And my father ran up the stairs.”Ī few swats later, a hush returned to the room.īut, inevitably, Bob found new ways to annoy his papa. My father would go : ‘Go to sleep.’ And I made Gene laugh again. “I would make Gene laugh - and he would laugh and laugh. “We slept in the same bed when we were kids,” Bob said. Bob remembers how he used to get in trouble as an ornery child. “You could feel in our house the love that he had for my mother.”īut Cory didn’t put up with nonsense. “I think my father was very romantic,” Gene said. They wed in 1927 and welcomed two sons, Robert and Eugene, while living on Auburndale Avenue off Euclid Avenue near Lake View Cemetery. Cory could hardly speak English, but he won Mary’s heart.
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