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 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.

Cleveland defeated Harrison, thus becoming the only person in American history to be elected to a second, non-consecutive presidential term.

Cleveland, who had won the popular vote against Harrison in 1888, lost the electoral vote ( and thus the election ) in that year.

It was built in conjunction with the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad thus providing a route from Cleveland and the East to Indianapolis, and later St. Louis.

Commentators have speculated that the timing of the announcement was to cause the referendum to go down in defeat and thus allow Modell to make the case that he was not receiving the public support he needed to remain viable in Cleveland.

Up through the 22 ¢ Cleveland stamp, the denomination assigned to each president corresponds to his position in the presidential roster: thus the first president, Washington, is on the 1 ¢ value, the seventeenth, Andrew Johnson, is on the 17 ¢ value, etc.

Joe Walsh and the James Gang started in Kent OH a suburb between Akron and Cleveland and thus could be claimed by both cities.

The Steelers were scheduled to open the regular season play at Heinz Field on September 16 against the Cleveland Browns, however, due to the September 11 attacks, all NFL games of the week were postponed ; thus moving the stadium's premiere to October 7, against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The controversy ended when the Cleveland Scene, an alternative weekly Cleveland newspaper, published a similar story, thus allowing The Plain Dealer to print the withheld story.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, among others, thus describes the nature of the statement and effect of " election falsification ": Anyone who signs this loyalty oath, but doesn't intend to honor it, can be prosecuted for " election falsification ," a fifth-degree felony.

In the early 1980s, famed American architect Philip Johnson designed a Post-Modernist addition to the Cleveland Play House that reflects Byzantine influences, and could thus be termed Neo-Byzantine.

His plans called for the building of an underground system of subways connecting every railroad entering Cleveland, at the Lake Front, thus facilitating the handling of freight, and the establishment of the great warehouse system on the Lake Shore, where he owned large frontages.

The division, geographically-speaking, thus became the shortest driving distance between each team among the NFL's eight divisions, as three of the teams are located within close proximity of Interstate 70 ( with the one city that isn't, Cleveland, being two hours north of I-70 ), and the distance between Baltimore and Cincinnati ( the two teams furthest away from each other ) being only 526 miles apart.

The following week he was hospitalized with a bronchial infection, forcing him to miss the final homestand and the AL Division Series against Cleveland, thus ending his streak of 121 consecutive postseason games at Yankee Stadium.

When Boston dropped out after the 1935 – 36 season thus reducing the league to just four active teams ( Philadelphia, Providence, Springfield, and New Haven ), however, the C-AHL joined with four teams from the International Hockey League ( Syracuse, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland ) and operated as a new but temporary " circuit of mutual convenience " styled as the " International-American Hockey League.

For " Hot Time ( In this City Tonight )" the band did their usual procedure and put in the name of the city where they were playing, thus calling on this particular live version " Hot Time ( In Old Cleveland Tonight )"

Morton served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Grover Cleveland ’ s administration and in 1872 he was instrumental in establishing the annual tree planting day, Arbor Day.

* Forest City, an American professional baseball team that played in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1870 to 1872, today generally referred to as the Cleveland Forest Citys

Cleveland Abbe founded the scientific journal Monthly Weather Review in 1872.

Louis Criger ( February 3, 1872 in Elkhart, Indiana – May 14, 1934 in Tucson, Arizona ) was a Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Spiders ( 1896 – 1898 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1899 – 1900 ), Boston Americans / Red Sox ( 1901 – 1908 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1909, 1912 ), and the New York Highlanders ( 1910 ).

The Cleveland and Troy clubs played two and four home games here, respectively, in 1872, when they were struggling economically ( both went out of business ).

It was home to the Cleveland Forest Citys of the National Association in 1871 and 1872, so it is considered a major league ballpark by those who count the National Association as a major league.

* Cleveland Abbe, Jr. ( 1872 – 1934 ), American geographer

Later in 1857, Cleveland designed Eastwood Cemetery ( 1872 ) in Lancaster, Massachusetts with his son.

In 1872, Cleveland was retained by the city of Chicago to rebuild South Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, after the great Chicago fire.