Ranking All 30 MLB Teams By How Intimidating Their Name Is

T-13. Cleveland Indians

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We’re just gonna go ahead and call it a three-way tie between the three teams named (correctly or incorrectly) after nationalities. The Indians ran through several names after their inception before deciding to stick with the most racist one. The Cleveland Spiders of the 1890s were often referred to as the Indians because outfielder Louis Sockalexis hailed from the Penobscot tribe, and the team recycled the name in 1914. 

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