Cleveland’s baseball team will be known as the Guardians, the club announced Friday.

The storied American League franchise said late last year that it was abandoning its long-held Native American nickname, after decades of complaints about the moniker’s racial insensitivity.

The new name was revealed in a video on the team’s Twitter page. The video was narrated by Tom Hanks.

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