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Leave sports team names alone: Jenkins

Count out legendary big league pitcher Ferguson Jenkins when it comes to signing any petition to change the name of the Cleveland Indians.

Or the bizarre request to not call them by name. Not going to happen on either count, the Hall of Famer says.

“Bob Feller (Cleveland Indians Hall of Famer) would be rolling over in his grave,” the Chatham native said Tuesday from St. Catharines where he was getting set to head north for a moose hunting trip with pals, near Hearst.

“I just don’t get it,” he added. “It was fine for 100 years of history there.