Commissioner Paul Tagliabue promised the city of Cleveland that an NFL team would be located in Cleveland, either through relocation or expansion, " no later than 1999 ".

That set up the NFL championship match between the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams a week later in Cleveland, a game the Browns won 30-28 on a last-minute Groza field goal.

Garrett, Graham's presumed successor, did not play a single game for Cleveland, who traded him to Green Bay, brought him back three years later, then released him for good after he could not overcome a stutter that made calling plays in the huddle difficult.

After the 1947 season, Greenberg retired from the field to become the Cleveland Indians ' farm system director and two years later, their general manager and part-owner along with Bill Veeck.

Gresham defended Landis, stating that Cleveland would have to fire both of them, and the President relented, later finding out that he was mistaken in accusing Landis.

In 1853, Medill and Edwin Cowles started a newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio: the Leader ( later absorbed by The Plain Dealer ).

Consequently, Cleveland joined Andrew Jackson and, later, Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the only candidates to win the popular vote in at least three U. S. presidential elections.

The later years of his career were spent with the Los Angeles Dodgers ( 1972 ), California Angels ( 1973 – 1974 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1974 – 1976 ).

Hill and his men worked in spite of all obstacles — including a presidential veto of a bill that would have allowed Hill legally to build through American Indian territory ( the law preventing Hill from laying track across Indian territories was later repealed under President Grover Cleveland, who like Hill was a Bourbon Democrat ).

" Co-founder Jann Wenner later said " one of the small sad things is we didn't do it in New York in the first place ," but later added " I am absolutely delighted that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is in Cleveland.

* January 17, 1989: Cleveland School massacre of Stockton, California where 5 school children were killed and 30 wounded by a single gunman firing over 100 rounds into a schoolyard from an AK-47, in which the perpetrator later took his life.

Two days later, the same storm reached cities in the east, such as Buffalo, Boston, Cleveland, New York City, and Washington, D. C. That winter ( 1934 – 1935 ), red snow fell on New England.

Although the Mariners subsequently lost the ALCS to the Cleveland Indians ( managed by later Mariners manager Mike Hargrove ), that moment remains one of the most memorable in Mariners history, capping a season that " saved baseball in Seattle ", Seattle's improbable late season playoff run that year, spurred by the return of Griffey from injury, led to the construction of Safeco Field and the future security of a franchise rumored for years to be on the move.

The original dolls were all cloth and sold at local craft shows, then later at Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia.

Battle Abbey remained in the Webster family until 1858 ; when it was sold by the sixth baronet, who died in 1853, to Lord Harry Vane, later Duke of Cleveland.

From 1968 onward, with the help of his brother Jimmy and later his girlfriend Althea Leasure, he opened Hustler Clubs in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Toledo.

Widespread use of the wire recording device occurred within the decades spanning from 1940 until 1960, following the development of inexpensive designs licensed internationally by the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio and the Armour Research Foundation of the Armour Institute of Technology ( later Illinois Institute of Technology ).

It was also later announced that Darnell Jackson's draft rights were traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for the lesser of their two second-round picks in 2009.

Though Stepien eventually threatened to move the franchise to Toronto and rename it the Toronto Towers, but brothers George and Gordon Gund purchased the franchise in the mid 1980s and decided to keep the team in Cleveland ( a decade later, Toronto would eventually receive an expansion franchise, the Toronto Raptors.

This ( which led to Davis being nicknamed in Cleveland as " Wrong Rim Ricky ") and countless other selfish acts contributed to the Cavs trading of Davis later that year and ushering in a new type of team.

Three of its teams were admitted to the NFL: San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts ( not related to the later NFL team that would play in Baltimore from 1953 through 1983, now the Indianapolis Colts ).

Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield later told Rob Neyer that when Williams yanked McLain early from a July 5 game against the Cleveland Indians, McLain threatened to call Senators owner Bob Short and have him get rid of Williams.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

The squad included seven future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Browns ' first regular-season game took place September 6, 1946 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the Miami Seahawks before a record crowd of 60, 135.

In 1957's draft, however, Cleveland took fullback Jim Brown out of Syracuse University in the first round.

Cleveland went on to defeat the Brooklyn Robins 5 – 2 in the World Series for their first title, winning four games in a row after the Robins took a 2 – 1 Series lead.

Despite the loss, Cleveland players took home a number of awards.

Cleveland took strong positions and was heavily criticized.

Malcolm decided on war, and took his army south into Cumbria and across the Pennines, wasting Teesdale and Cleveland then marching north, loaded with loot, to Wearmouth.

The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

Harrison took the side of industrialists and factory workers who wanted to keep tariffs high, while Cleveland strenuously denounced high tariffs as unfair to consumers.

The world's first successful operation took place in 1998 at the Cleveland Clinic, and the second took place in October 2010 at the University of California Medical Center in Sacramento.

Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.

The Hornets ' first NBA game took place on November 4, 1988, at the Charlotte Coliseum, and was a 133 – 93 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

It was named for Benjamin Cleveland, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War, who took part in the Battle of King's Mountain.

" Armstrong developed an interest in flying at age two when his father took him to the National Air Races in Cleveland.

Later, he took the Thompson Trophy Race at Cleveland in the notorious Gee Bee R-1 racer with a speed averaging 252 miles per hour.

Hanna was in charge of the committee which took charge of the late president's body when it was brought to Cleveland and saw to the funeral arrangements and interment at Lake View Cemetery — where Hanna himself was to be laid to rest over 20 years later.

In 1963, they took the name " The O ' Jays ", in tribute to Cleveland radio disc jockey Eddie O ' Jay who was part of the powerful management team of Frankie Crocker, Herb Hamlett & Eddie O ' Jay, ( Toop, 1991 ).

After the disastrous 1915 season, Parratt returned to Cleveland, where he took some of his former Akron players and a few ex-collegians into a respectable team which he named the Cleveland Tigers.

In 1924, Sam Deutsch, the owner of the NFL's Cleveland Indians, bought the Canton Bulldogs and took the Bulldogs name and its players to Cleveland and named his franchise the Cleveland Bulldogs.