Cleveland Indians

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Sabathia signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Hawaii, but never attended college.

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Contrary to popular belief, the team was not named for 19th century Cleveland player Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915. Rather, when the Naps needed a new name after Napoleon Lajoie was sent to the Philadelphia Athletics after the end of the 1914 season, Charles Somers, the team owner, asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name for the team. They chose "Indians" as a play on the name of the 1914 Boston Braves, who were known as the "Miracle Boston Braves" after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the World Series. The proponents of the name acknowledged that the Cleveland Spiders of the National League had sometimes been informally called the "Indians" during Sockalexis' short career there, a fact which merely reinforced the new name. In any case, the name change was assumed to be temporary, but it stuck. And 34 years later, the Indians went on to defeat those same Braves, 4 games to 2, in the 1948 World Series -- after winning a one game playoff against Boston's other team, the Red Sox. The victory over the Braves was the franchise's second of two world titles; the Tribe had also won the 1920 World Series, defeating the Brooklyn Robins 5 games to 2. Legend has it that the team honored Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915. The spectacular Sockalexis, a Native American, had played in Cleveland 1897-1899. On the contrary, when the "Naps" sent longtime leader Napoleon Lajoie to the Philadelphia Athletics at the end of the 1914 season, owner Charles Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name for the team. They chose "Indians" as a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the "Miracle Braves" after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series. Proponents of the name acknowledged that the Cleveland Spiders of the National League had sometimes been informally called the "Indians" during Sockalexis' short career there, a fact which merely reinforced the new name. In any case, the name stuck. And 34 years later, the Indians went on to defeat that same Braves franchise, 4 games to 2, in the 1948 World Series -- after first winning a one game playoff against Boston's other team, the Red Sox. The victory over the Braves was the franchise's second of two World Series titles; the Tribe had also won the 1920 World Series, defeating the Brooklyn Robins 5 games to 2. (Pluto, 1999) The name and logo of the Cleveland Indians, in its depiction of a smiling red-faced cartoon character, is considered by many to be racist and highly offensive. Such individuals consider the term "Indians" to be a derogatory characterization of an entire race and the logo to be a highly offensive depiction of the stereotypical "drunk" aboriginal. Similar objections are made with regard to other sports teams that allegedly depict aboriginal people in a racist manner, such as the Chicago Blackhawks, Washington Redskins and Atlanta Braves.

Dutch Levsen played in 25 games at pitcher for the Cleveland Indians in 1927, starting in none of them.

He made 2 putouts, had 27 assists, and committed 2 errors, equivalent to .08 errors per game (estimate based on total games played in). He had 3 double plays.

A 2000 Cleveland Indians Team Signed Baseball with the key signatures: Thome, Lofton, and Ramirez is worth about $200.-$225.

Value is based on average prices of recently closed auctions. Prices may vary based on condition, and the type of authenticity that accompanies the baseball. Prices may also vary based on the amount of signatures, and key signatures acquired. The more complete the baseball with key signatures the more valuable. If the signatures are not properly authenticated the baseball could sell at half the market value or less. For more information on team signed baseballs, links to full team rosters, key signatures, and price guide visit the following page from the link I left below.

A 1948 Cleveland Indians American League Champs Pennant is worth about $150. - $250. in excellent to near/mint condition. Even minor flaws will bring the price down significantly. Common flaws with pennants are missing ties, pin holes, frying, creases, and "crackling" on the printing. Sometimes people will trim down a pennant to rid it of the frying or other flaws like a flat tip (point) Caused by being pinned up and ripped off. Any of these flaws will degrade the pennant significantly. These Pennants were sold at souvenir stands at Cleveland Stadium during the 1948 World Series making them more rare than the World Series Champions pennants that were sold during the regular season the following year, but the World Series pennants might be more sought after. For more information on vintage pennants see Related Links below.

The Chicago White Sox have won 66 World Series. Since 1807

This answer is obviously a joke. First, there was no Major League Baseball in 1807, as an "organized" professional baseball league, the National League, did not begin play until 1876. The White Sox began play in the newly formed American League in 1901. Since that time, the White Sox have won two World Championships.

The First Basemen that have played for the Cleveland Indians would include players such as Jim Thome, Travis Hafner, Nick Swisher, Jesus Aguilar, Michael Aubrey, Russell Branyan, Ben Broussard, Sean Casey, Chris Chamblisss, Bill Davis, Cecil Fielder, Julio Franco, Ryan Garko, Andy Gonzalez, Orlando Gonzalez, Bob Hale, Mike Hargrove, Jose Hernandez, Keith Hernandez, Doug Howard, Reggie Jefferson, Casey Kotchman, Candy Lachance, Matt LaPorta, Jeff Liefer, Ed Morgan, Eduardo Perez, Herbert Perry, Vic Power, Mickey Rocco, Carlos Santana, David Segui, Earl Snyder and Paul Sorrento.

Glendale, Arizona. It's a suburb of Phoenix

The Right Fielders that have played for the Cleveland Indians would include Omar Vizquel, Manny Ramirez, Ryan Raburn, Nick Swisher, David Murphy, Shin-Soo Choo, Ezequiel Carrera, Matt Carson, Jason Dubois, Aaron Cunningham, Ernie Young, Drew Stubbs, Alex Ramirez, Shane Spencer, Ryan Ludwick, Trot Nixon, Mark Little, Jason Kubel, Raul Gonzalez, Frank Gutierrez, Juan Gonzalez, Todd Dunwoody, Kosuke Fukudome, Karim Garcia and Jody Gerut.

According to MLB Rule 1.04 "The distance from home base to the nearest fence, stand or other obstruction on fair territory shall be 250 feet or more. A distance of 320 feet or more along the foul lines, and 400 feet or more to center field is preferable."

the 1953 Milwaukee Braves (their 1st season in Milwaukee) had two black players (Jim Pendleton, & George Crowe) on their roster. Sam Jethroe was the 1st black player for the Boston Braves.

Jim Paschke is the play-by-play announcer and Jon McGlocklin is the analyst.

McGlocklin is also known as "Johnny Mac" from his playing days. He was a member of the inaugural Milwaukee Bucks roster in 1968. His "rainbow jumpers" as described by then-radio announcer Eddie Doucette helped lead the Bucks to the 1971 NBA Championship in just their third yeay.

476 Wins 383 Losses and 13 ties for a 55.4% win percentage. By comparison, the Steelers have a record of 526 Wins, 491 Losses, and 20 Ties, for a 51.7% win percentage. This is much less impressive when compared to the Browns, making Cleveland the historically superior team.

Overall, Satchel Paige played in many different baseball leagues. he played in the major and the minor leagues. he also played in the negro leagues and his number in the negro leagues was #25

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In 1953, Ray Boone played in 34 games for the Cleveland Indians, batting in all of them. He had 112 at bats, getting 27 hits, for a .241 batting average, with 3 sacrifice hits, 0 sacrifice flies, and 21 runs batted in. He was walked 24 times. He struck out 21 times. He hit 1 double, 2 triples, and 4 home runs.

Through the 2012 season, the Cleveland Indians have an all-time record of 8,839-8,543.

Kosar never played MLB. You must have the Indians confused with the Cleveland Browns of the NFL.

Starters ...

Bob Lemon: 23-7

Early Wynn: 23-11

Mike Garcia: 19-8

Art Houtteman: 15-7

Bob Feller: 13-3

Relievers ...

Hal Newhouser: 7-2

Don Mossi: 6-1

Ray Narleski: 3-3

Bob Chakales: 2-0

Dave Hoskins: 0-1

CC Sabathia was born in Vallejo, California.

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