Cleveland Guardians

The Cleveland Guardians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland that competes in Major League Baseball as a member club of the American League Central Division. The franchise began in 1896 as the Columbus Buckeyes of the minor Western League, moved to Cleveland in 1900, and became one of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901. Known for more than a century as the Indians, the club adopted the name Guardians in 2022, taken from the Guardians of Traffic, eight Art Deco sculptures on the city's Hope Memorial Bridge beside its home, Progressive Field, where it has played since 1994. The Guardians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948, and the drought since 1948 is the longest active among the thirty current major league teams.