Cleveland’s baseball team, known as the Indians since 1915, will change its mascot name to the Guardians, the team announced Friday.

The new name, the Guardians, is in reference to two guardian statues that hold up the Hope Memorial Bridge just outside of the team’s stadium.

The name change comes after decades of protest and petitioning from indigenous groups and people who understood the insensitive connotation around the name. The team announced in December that they’d begin the process of changing the name. They stopped using the racist Chief Wahoo logo altogether in 2019.

Cleveland announced the name change in a two-minute video voiced over by Tom Hanks (who, according to Wikipedia, spent time in his young adult years in Cleveland). In it, they talk about “forging into the future” and rally fans to “guard what makes this game greatest.”

“It’s always been ‘Cleveland’ that’s been the best part of the name,” Hanks says in the video.

They video announcement doesn’t mention what will soon be their old team name. The name was said to be in honor of Louis Sockalexis, who played for the Cleveland Spiders, a different franchise that lasted in the city from 1887 to 1899. By all accounts, Sockalexis was treated terribly inside and outside of the city.

The Society for American Baseball Research points out that was columnist from the late-1890s said at the time that “columns of silly poetry are written about [Sockalexis], [and] hideous looking cartoons adorn the sporting pages of nearly every paper.”

Those “hideous looking cartoons” resemble imagery that would eventually become Chief Wahoo, and when changing their name to the “Indians” the team at the time, it was because that’s what the Spiders were nicknamed when they had a Native American playing for their team. None of it really came from a place of “honoring” Sockalexis–it came from the owner wanting to reinvigorate the “all-too-brief period of excitement” around the Spiders, according to SABR.

Sockalexis died two years before the name changed to “Indians.”

The National Congress of American Indians released a statement on Friday “commending” Cleveland on the name change, noting that the change is “another important step forward in healing the harms its former mascot long caused Native people, in particular Native youth.”

According to a New York Times report in December, the name change could take effect before the 2022 season. The deep blue and red colors of the team will remain the same.

Owner Larry Dolan will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. EST to talk about the decision.