Seattle and Cleveland met in the first round of the playoffs, however the Mariners won the series 3-2.

Keller met every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.

During his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.

In the mid 1960s, Crumb left home and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he designed greeting cards for the American Greetings corporation, and met a group of young bohemians including Buzzy Linhart, Liz Johnston, and others.

Burns and Allen met in 1922 and first performed together at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, continued in small town vaudeville theaters, married in Cleveland on January 7, 1926, and moved up a notch when they signed with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit in 1927.

Hanna met with many politicians at his Cleveland home.

In the late 1940s, while working at WAKR ( 1590 AM ) in Akron, Ohio, Freed met Cleveland record store owner Leo Mintz.

He was impressed after hearing a speech by the political radical Emma Goldman, whom he met for the first time during one of her lectures in Cleveland in 1901.

When the owners met in Cleveland, Ohio on April 24, 1945 to vote for a new commissioner, Chandler's name was not on the short list ; the candidates were Frick, Farley, Hannegan, Vinson, Lausche, and Patterson.

In 1905, he met and married 16-year-old singer Cleva Creighton ( Frances Cleveland Creighton ) and in 1906, their first child and only son, Creighton Chaney ( a. k. a. Lon Chaney, Jr .) was born.

At one visit to La Plata, he met Professor Mainetti, who pointed him in the direction of the Cleveland Clinic.

Cohen lived first in Cleveland, where he met Lou Rothkopf, an associate of Moe Dalitz.

The first Citizens Party National Convention met in Cleveland in the Cleveland Plaza Hotel from April 10 to 13, 1980.

A longtime close friend of Oscar Folsom, Grover Cleveland, at age 27, met his future wife shortly after she was born.

He settled in Cleveland, where he met and married his first wife, Mary Birge ( with whom he also had an acrobatic act and one child, Tina, who was born in 1949 ), and worked as a plumber and carpenter.

While in Cleveland, they met local disc jockey Bill Randle.

Bendis met his future wife Alisa in 1995 through the Cleveland chapter of the Hillel Foundation, where Alisa worked and Bendis was a staff illustrator.

Lajoie, nicknamed " The Frenchman " and considered baseball's most famous player at the time, arrived in Cleveland on June 4 and his play was immediately met with approval from fans.

He had met her the previous year while in Cleveland.

In Cleveland, they met manager Milton Jenkins, and soon moved with Jenkins to Detroit, Michigan, where the Cavaliers renamed themselves ' The Primes '.

During his first summer with Cleveland, he first met mentor and later manager Charlie Manuel.

On 29 July 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, calling her the " woman of the year " She was then sent on a tour of six states where she met with luminaries and appeared before large crowds in cities such as Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco.

Instead, mafia families in Chicago, Cleveland and various cities on the East Coast had met shortly after Williams ' resignation announcement and picked Presser to lead the Teamsters.

Ed Delahanty and Chuck Klein of the Phillies, the Braves' Joe Adcock, Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, Pat Seerey of the White Sox and Rocky Colavito, then with Cleveland, made their history on the road.

* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

Cleveland finished 2 games ahead of Chicago and 3 games ahead of the Yankees to win its first pennant, led by Speaker's. 388 hitting, Jim Bagby's 30 victories and solid performances from Steve O ' Neill and Stan Coveleski.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.

Although the Tigers have been the predominant MLB parent of the IL Mud Hens ( 1967 – 73 and since 1987 ), the team has also been affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1974 – 75 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1976 – 77 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1978 – 86 ) and the Yankees ( 1965 – 66 ).

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

In the Red Sox final two games against the Yankees to force a one-game playoff against the Cleveland Indians, Williams got on base eight times out of ten plate appearances.

In his first at bat as player / manager of the Indians, he homered at Cleveland Stadium off Yankees pitcher Doc Medich.

On September 14, while in a tight three-way race for the American League Eastern Division crown with the Red Sox and Orioles, Jackson ended a game with the Red Sox by hitting a home run off Reggie Cleveland, giving the Yankees a 2 – 0 win.

The Yankees played Cleveland that day and honored him with a tribute.

Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians.

* Charlie Spikes, the " Bogalusa Bomber " was a Major League Baseball player from 1972 to 1980 for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Atlanta Braves.

Jason pitched for the following teams: Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, Anaheim Angels, New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Orioles, and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

* Bob Wickman, former relief pitcher for the New York Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, and Arizona Diamondbacks

Ban Johnson: The president of the American League since its debut in 1901 effectively limited Frazee to the Yankees and White Sox as the only teams with whom Frazee could make a deal by pressuring the other five teams ( the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators ) not to make any trades at all with Frazee.

They were also swept by the Cleveland Indians in the 1995 AL Division Series in three games ( extending their postseason losing streak to a major-league record 13 games ), lost again to the Indians in the 1998 ALDS three games to one, and were defeated by the Yankees four games to one in the 1999 ALCS.

That same day, the Yankees suffered their worst loss in team history, a 22-0 clobbering at home against the Cleveland Indians.

In 1975, the Cleveland Indians of the American League held a kangaroo court where players were fined one dollar for silly offenses, and the New York Yankees players have held several such mock " courts " in their clubhouse throughout the team's history.

In addition to the Yankees ( 1975 ), he also played for the Chicago White Sox ( 1978 ), Texas Rangers ( 1978 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1979 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1980 ), and Chicago Cubs ( 1981 ).

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

The following year, he had one start for the Yankees in the ALDS against the Cleveland Indians ; coincidentally, he again faced his 1988 postseason nemesis Orel Hershiser.