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Imagine the Philadelphia Blacks, featuring a logo with exaggerated lips and similar big teeth. Or the New York Jews, with a short mascot who had a large, crooked nose and wore a yarmulke. The ugliness of the logo is no accident. This stereotype is obviously not the one that most Cleveland fans have in mind when they think of their team today.

Mark Shapiro, a former Cleveland Indians president and current Blue Jays president, has promoted use of the other logo, the simple C. Shapiro was asked about it after Blue Jays broadcaster Jerry Howarth said he refuses to use the team name after getting a letter from an aboriginal person saying such terms were deeply offensive.

Please enter email address to continue. Please enter valid email address to continue. The Cubs fan mourns years without a World Series win. The Cubs fan remembers seasons snatched away — in , , and The Jew holds strong to tradition — fasting on Yom Kippur, recounting the Exodus at Passover, abstaining from pork and shellfish.

The Jew travels to a holy site — the Western Wall, covered in green plants, steeped in memory and mired in controversy over who can pray where. The Cubs fan also travels to a holy site — Wrigley Field, covered in green plants, steeped in memory and mired in controversy over a hideous Jumbotron.

Things are good for the Cubs fan now. The team has more than wins and is favored to take the World Series. But the Cubs fan knows history. And the Cubs fan knows the Curse of the Billy Goat may still strike again.

Is there any doubt the New York Yankees are the most Jewish of baseball teams? The Bronx Bombers are the winningest team ever in professional sports, and the Jews are the Chosen People. But with their storied history, the Yankees stand for tradition.

Of course, this franchise also gave us the most Jewish moment in professional sports history. On Oct.

Larry was the World Series MVP — and when Koufax won that award in and , that gave the team a string of three consecutive Jews to receive the honor. In other words, they represent the whole of Jewish athletics — and the darkhorse spirit that has characterized our tribe throughout history.