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Creator of Chief Wahoo passes away at age 88
Fox8 CLE ^
Posted on 12/15/2017 4:53:54 PM PST by ameribbean expat
MEDINA, Ohio-- The man who created the original Chief Wahoo character for the Cleveland Indians passed away on Wednesday at Medina County hospice after a short illness. Walter Goldbach was 88 years old.
Goldbach, a longtime resident of Hinkley, leaves behind five children. He worked as a sign painter in Northeast Ohio for many years and served in the United States Army during the Korea War.
He was just a teenager when Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck came to his family's graphics business and requested a character drawing to represent the team. The logo was the grandfather to today's Chief Wahoo.
FOX 8 News spoke to Goldbach about his now-controversial creation in April.
"When I look at him, he's smiling, whether you are winning or losing," he said.
Goldbach will be laid to rest at Western Reserve Cemetery on Dec. 21.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: baseball; chiefwahoo; clevelandindians; indians; mlb; sports; waltergoldbach
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To: ameribbean expat
They should remember him with a statue of his emblem right outside the ballpark. Wouldn’t that set off the race-baiters?
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12/15/2017 4:57:45 PM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
To: ameribbean expat
Original Chief Wahoo.
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:08:36 PM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: ameribbean expat
Wait - was this unPC artist a Jew? Uh oh.
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:08:39 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:08:44 PM PST
by
LeoTDB69
To: ameribbean expat
Ooops....aaaannndd it's time to break out the ol' caps:
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:11:15 PM PST
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the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:11:40 PM PST
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jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: jjotto
Darn...not as much Schadenfreude power.
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:12:27 PM PST
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the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:13:16 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:21:46 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:23:42 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: the OlLine Rebel
It should be the San Francisco Ferries.
To: ameribbean expat
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12/15/2017 5:36:56 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: ameribbean expat
To: jjotto
I loved the original Chief Wahoo- he has that zany look that so many different mascots off the time had... something that was often replaced by stuff either too cutesy or too clever by half. The Chief rates up there with Art Evans' work*
*The king of the golden era of college mascots.
To: Redcitizen
Ricky Vaughn!! A Twitter legend!!
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12/15/2017 5:43:55 PM PST
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ObozoMustGo2012
("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
To: the OlLine Rebel
How ‘bout The Chicago Polacks?
(Jersey Dagos? Boston Micks? Long Island WASPs?)
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posted on
12/15/2017 5:44:43 PM PST
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shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: EvilCapitalist
It should be the San Francisco Ferries. "How to speak San Franciscan.......Va-Joy-Na!"
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12/15/2017 5:46:00 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
That’s the movie I was thinking of.
To: EvilCapitalist
I still watch it every once in awhile, and it still cracks me up......Don’t know why Matt and Trey diss it so much.
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12/15/2017 5:50:53 PM PST
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dfwgator
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