There was talk of dragging old ex-President Cleveland out of retirement for another try.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan ( 1905 ).

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

The 1910 race for best average in the American League was between the Detroit Tigers ' widely disliked Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians.

The only home run ball ever hit completely out of Memorial Stadium was slugged by Robinson on Mother's Day in 1966, off Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

The outrage and controversy that erupted, as well as the NFL's desire to keep a team in Cleveland, led to an agreement whereby Modell was cleared to move his team ( which became the Baltimore Ravens ) but relinquished ownership of the Browns ' name, colors, logos and history.

Some sources say McBride was asked for thousands of dollars in compensation from a businessman who owned the rights to the name Cleveland Panthers, an earlier failed football team.

Some people suggested Cleveland was at best the dominant team in a minor league, while others were confident of its prospects in the NFL.

One of the new ownership group's first acts was to assure Cleveland fans they would give Brown the same kind of leeway.

Cleveland was coming off a series of bad drafts, including in 1954, when the team selected quarterback Bobby Garrett with the first pick.

Before the 1958 season, Cleveland was again in search of a quarterback.

Cleveland, however, was relying increasingly on the running game, in contrast to its pass-happy early years under Graham.

When Paul Brown was fired by Art Modell, Brown still owned the equipment used by Cleveland.

The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.

One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the major league incarnation of the club was founded in Cleveland in.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

Cleveland was thus the NA's westernmost outpost in 1872, the year the club folded.

Cleveland was not among its charter members, but by 1879 the league was looking for new entries and the city gained an NL team.

The Cleveland Forest Citys baseball team was then re-created.

The Cleveland Infants was in the Players ' League.

In 1900 the team moved to Cleveland and was named The Cleveland Lake Shores.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

The Cleveland franchise was among its eight charter members.

Cleveland did not know which man was the father, and is believed to have assumed responsibility because he was the only bachelor among them.

His career ERA of 2. 13 and 79 career shutouts are among the best all-time for pitchers, and his 373 wins is still number one in the National League, tied with Grover Cleveland Alexander.

The five school districts other than the Cleveland School District are among the 20 smallest of the 152 school districts in the State of Mississippi.

He also backed the Union Railroad and the Marietta, Columbus and Cleveland Railroad, among other local railroads.

President Grover Cleveland forced the repeal of these laws in 1893, which ruined his popularity among many Democrats.

He worked in Cleveland, Ohio for the next few years, contributing to the design of, among other projects, the Cuyahoga County Court House.

* 21 is the designation of a US Highway connecting Wytheville, Virginia and Beaufort, South Carolina, a truncation of a route that once connected Cleveland, Ohio and Jacksonville, Florida, among other highways past and present.

The Cleveland Arcade was among the first indoor shopping arcades in the US and an architectural triumph.

Subsequent contract battles with defensive end Jack Gregory in 1971 and second-round draft pick Tom Skladany in 1977 only served to damage Modell's image among Cleveland fans.

Two famous Cleveland brothers, Louis Stokes ( US Congressman for over 28 years ) and Carl Stokes ( first black mayor of a major US city 1967 ) were among the first residents of Outhwaite.

Many older tiles considered to be the work of the original tiler have been eroded by inner-city traffic, but older tiles remain in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; St. Louis, Missouri ; Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio ; and South America, among other locations.

He circulated among several wagon trains fighting cholera, which he had learned about during the 1849 epidemic in Cleveland.

Currently there are also monasteries in ( among other places ): Bordentown, New Jersey ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Brenham, Texas ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Cleveland, Ohio ( O. S. C., P. C. C.

This division among Republicans may have contributed to the victory in 1884 of Grover Cleveland, the first president elected from the Democratic party since the Civil War.

In an opposite direction, he premiered a technologically innovative opera called Dennis Cleveland at the Kitchen in 1996, based on a talk show format and with some of the singers / actors spread out among the audience, though with a dense libretto drawn from John Ralston Saul's critique of Western society in the latter's book Voltaire's Bastards.

In addition to giving recitals, she appeared with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

* April 15-Sonny Liston keeps his climb among challengers in the Heavyweight division by knocking out Cleveland Williams in the third round, at Miami Beach.

The movement, which was originally associated mainly with Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Washington, D. C. promoted beauty not only for its own sake, but also to create moral and civic virtue among urban populations.

He placed second in home runs among catchers, below only Sandy Alomar, Jr. of the Cleveland Indians, who had 20 home runs.

Marian and friends raised funds among a wide variety of people for the colony, which was supported by former U. S. President Grover Cleveland, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the financier J. P. Morgan, and other prominent people, as well as many others across the country.