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.

I certainly hope this will be the impression left in the minds of readers, rather than the comment by Cleveland Amory in his first of the month column.

It might be rough on Edythe at first, but Linda and John between them could make a settlement handsome enough to soothe her, to send her back to Cleveland or anywhere.

* 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

In 1858, he published in The Plain Dealer ( Cleveland, Ohio ) the first of the " Artemus Ward " series, which, in a collected form, achieved great popularity in both America and England.

Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

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.

On the game's first play from scrimmage, Brown raced 65 yards for a touchdown, giving Cleveland a 7-0 lead.

With just a few games left in the season, and Cleveland and Chicago neck-and-neck for first place at 94 – 54 and 95 – 56 respectively, the Chicago owner suspended eight players.

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.

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.

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

Cleveland's struggles over the 30-year span were highlighted in the 1989 film Major League, which comically depicted a hapless Cleveland ball club going from worst to first by the end of the film.

Having contended for the division in the aborted 1994 season, Cleveland sprinted to a 100 – 44 record ( 18 games were lost to player / owner negotiations ) in 1995 winning its first ever divisional title.

After defeating the Boston Red Sox in the Division Series and the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, Cleveland clinched a World Series berth, for the first time since 1954.

Cleveland became the first team to lose the World Series after carrying the lead into the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game.

This time, Cleveland did not make it past the first round, losing the Division Series to the Red Sox, despite taking a 2-0 lead in the series.

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