In July 2021, the Cleveland Guardians announced their name change, which was inspired by the "Guardians of Traffic" statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in the city. Team owner Paul Dolan clarified ...

The Cleveland Indians new name being inspired instead by the ‘Guardians of Traffic’ sandstone statues on the neighboring ... ‘Cleveland Cars’, ‘Congestion’, ‘Traffic ...

The newly christened Cleveland ... monumental Art Deco statues that line the Hope Memorial Bridge leading up to the stadium at Progressive Field. Named the Guardians of Traffic, the 43-foot ...

the home of Cleveland's professional baseball team. Four statues adorn it, with eight different Guardians of Traffic, an Art Deco touch that anyone who's been downtown will immediately recognize.

So how did Cleveland land on Guardians as its new team name? The new mascot pays homage to the Guardians of Traffic statues near Progressive Field in Cleveland, located on the Hope Memorial Bridge.

Those are the "Guardians of Traffic," iconic in the Cleveland area. The 43-foot statues have stood on that Hope Memorial Bridge for almost 100 years and you can see Progressive Field in the ...

It’s a safe design inspired by the city of Cleveland and the organization's history. The main connection to the city has to do with the city's famous "Guardians of Traffic" statues which the ...

Those were the words of rapper and Cleveland native Kid Cudi in a ... Heavily inspired by the famed "Guardians of Traffic" at the Hope Memorial Bridge outside Progressive Field, the navy blue ...

One of the company’s earlier projects is the 43-foot-tall guardians of traffic that flank Hope Memorial Bridge in downtown Cleveland, he said. “Our company built those statues back in the ...