A day after hosting Republican performance artist Marjorie Taylor Greene to throw out the first pitch, the minor league baseball club in Rome, Georgia, in Marge’s home district, announced it’s going woke and changing its mascot from a derisive Native American image.
“After twenty proud years as the Rome Braves, the time has come to usher in a new era of Minor League Baseball in Rome, Georgia. In 2024, the Rome Professional Baseball Club will take the field under a new name,” the team said in a statement. “Our mission is to give the Rome community a brand as unique and special as the area itself is.”
The club, a minor league affiliate of the Atlanta big league team with which it shared a name, asked fans to submit new names via its website. In the past decade, a number of teams in various sports on various levels have changed their mascots from images that portray demeaning ethnic stereotypes.