The team's name references the Guardians of Traffic, eight monolithic 1932 Art Deco sculptures by Henry Hering on the city's Hope Memorial Bridge, The team's mascot is named "Slider". The team's ...

Last month, the Cleveland Indians announced that they ... as an homage to the "Guardians of Traffic" that look over Hope Memorial Bridge just outside of Progressive Field.

Tower City's parking ramp looms, ugly and green; the hairpin turn, littered with garbage, hides under a dark overpass; the stern-faced figures that guard the Hope Memorial Bridge tower far above.