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Did this offend anyone at the time? In 1986 Peter Bavasi asked the players how they thought the team's uniforms should look and they suggested the Chief Wahoo be put on the hats. They predicted it would sell like crazy. Bavasi had worried if this logo on the team hats would offend the Native Americans, when Bavasi said this Bert Blyleven stated, "Nah, it shouldn't. Really looks like Phil Seghi." This was the Indians manager at the time. Now of course the Native American Indians found this racist, how could you not see the logo is racist. It is a smiling, red skinned, big nosed, Native American Indian. Another reason it was racist then was because when Goldbach created the Chief Wahoo logo, it was in the same time period as these caricatures of Jews that were drawn that were used to reinforce a program for their extinction in Nazi Germany, and it was also in the same time period that caricatures of black people that were used to reinforce segregation under Jim Crow. This time period had a lot of influence on many of the cartoons in this era, like Disney, MGM, and Warner Brothers cartoons. This was the climax of this era, the same time when Chief Wahoo was created. So would I think it was racist then, then, most likely not, on a count of how everyone thought back then in that era. Now is a totally different story, after hearing all this and reading into when the logo of the Cleveland Indians, Chief Wahoo, was created, I find myself also thinking that racism had a big part in the design of the big nosed, red skinned, smiling Indian. .
This brings me to my next point. Anyone that has attended a Cleveland Indians game, or watched the game on television, or even listened to the game on the radio, has more than likely heard the pounding of the bass drum in the outfield of Progressive Stadium by the infamous drummer John Adams. John Adams played the drums at his high school in his earlier days.
