Cleveland Guardians: How a Rust-Belt Rebrand Became the World’s Accidental Mirror
CLEVELAND—Somewhere between the rust-spotted skyline and the eternal optimism that Lake Erie refuses to drown, the Cleveland Guardians have quietly become the most geopolitically interesting nine innings on earth. To the average European, the name conjures images of stone-faced gargoyles and Brexit negotiations; to a Tokyo commuter it sounds like a new cyber-security protocol; to…