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.

According to Paul Samuelson, Gibbs generally voted for the Republican candidate in presidential elections, but supported Grover Cleveland, a conservative Democrat.

The hall of fame board voted to build the museum in Cleveland.

On February 21, 2012 the Greater Cleveland Council announced that " the executive board of Greater Cleveland Council, Boy Scouts of America voted to unanimously accept a cash offer of $ 415, 000 for the 10 acre property on the French River in Ontario, Canada that was the Tinnerman Wilderness Canoe Base.

In the June 2002 issue of Cleveland Magazine, the North Ridgeville Corn Festival was voted the best festival in Northeast Ohio.

However the issue wasn't settled until the owners ' meeting in January, when the owners voted for Cleveland to take the title.

On December 2008, the Cleveland, Ohio City Council voted to create a non-binding domestic partner registry.

The issue came up again in the late 1990s, and on July 9, 1999, the SA leadership, meeting at an international conference in Cleveland, unanimously voted ( 9-0 ) to clarify the definition of " spouse " to be " one's partner in a marriage between a man and a woman.

Next, Roberts also won the 1992 Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature and has been voted " Cleveland's Favorite Author " by Cleveland. com.

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

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

Grover Cleveland Alexander, one of eight players with a number retired or honored by the Phillies

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 ".

Although the economic Panic of 1893 had a number of causes, President Grover Cleveland believed the inflation caused by Sherman's act to be a major factor, and called a special session of Congress to repeal it.

A number of distinguished visitors including presidents Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison were reported to have stayed here.

* Cleveland Golf, a golfing brand with a number of clubs and apparel

In 1980, the gold shade was changed from yellowish to metallic, and the uniforms removed the checkerboard pattern and placed the stripes above Cleveland and below the uniform number, the only time the city name was featured in both home and away jerseys.

The road uniform is wine colored with the same stripe trim, " Cleveland " in gold on the front of the jersey, and gold lettering on the name and number, with black shoes and socks.

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 original 1969 dial-up technology was fairly simple — the local phone number in Cleveland, for example, was a line connected to a time-division multiplexer which connected via a leased line to a matched multiplexer in Columbus, which was connected to a time-sharing host system.

* Mayfield Village was rated the third best suburb of Cleveland by Cleveland Magazine for the second consecutive year and was once crowned the number one spot.

A west side suburb of Cleveland, North Ridgeville is the number 1 fastest growing city in the entire Greater Cleveland area.

A number of free-nets, including the original Cleveland Free-Net, have shut down or changed their focus.

They also shifted a large number of Cleveland home games to the road ( for instance, the original Opening Day game was shifted to St. Louis ).

The Church has collaborated with ACE on a number of projects, including CDs, DVDs and the Rant ' n Rave events in Cleveland, Ohio.

Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions, including the Cleveland Clinic, the University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Cleveland Play House.