Cleveland went without major league baseball for two seasons until gaining a team in the American Association ( AA ) in 1887.

After defeating the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS, Cleveland went on to face the Florida Marlins in the World Series which featured the coldest game in World Series history.

The underdog Marlins went on to face the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series, and won in seven games.

He went 2 – 0 in the World Series against the Cleveland Indians, winning World Series MVP.

* Billingham ( in Stockton-on-Tees ) and Wilton ( in present day Redcar and Cleveland ): ICI used the site to manufacture fertilisers in the 1920s and went on to produce plastics at Billingham in 1934.

One study of new restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio found that 1 in 4 changed ownership or went out of business after one year, and 6 out of 10 did so after three years.

Amos Otis ' throw went past Cleveland Indians catcher Ray Fosse, as Rose barreled over Fosse to score the winning run.

* June 12, 1887: Cleveland, Tennessee Will Guess went to the school and fatally shot Miss Irene Fann, his little sister's teacher, for whipping her the day before.

Home court advantage went to Cleveland.

Harrison and Reid went on to lose the 1892 election, to Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic candidates.

It was only when her fellow cast members went suddenly silent that Cleveland realised she'd forgotten to put on any underwear that morning.

To settle the trade, Cleveland and Minnesota executives went to dinner, with the Indians picking up the tab.

* Geoff Roes-Elite Ultramarathon Runner-Raised on the shores of Oneida Lake, Geoff attended Cleveland Elementary and went on to star in Track & Cross-Country for the Central Square Redmen before a brief but successful running career at Syracuse University.

* Jason Grimsley was born in Cleveland but went to school in Tarkington ISD, just east of town on State Hwy 321.

LaMotta went 14-0-1 ( 3 KOs ) as a middleweight in his first fifteen bouts before losing a highly controversial split decision to Jimmy Reeves in Reeves ' hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.

Cody's father went to Cleveland, Ohio to organize a colony of thirty families to bring back to Kansas.

Dr. Hanna went into partnership with his brother Robert, starting a grocery business in Cleveland, and relocated his family there in 1852.

In Cleveland, Mark attended several public schools, including Cleveland Central High School, which he went to at the same time as John D. Rockefeller.

After Cleveland scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to take a 7 – 3 lead, Boston countered with a run and Coumbe was brought in to face Ruth with the bases loaded, who hit his second homer of the game, as the Sox went on to win, 8 – 7.

Blair never went to Cleveland ; he only spoke to the minister on the phone and then copied most of the article from an earlier Washington Post article.

Dr. Young presided over a new team known as the " Hammond All-Stars ," played against many of the teams that would become the backbone of the American Professional Football Association that year ( including the Racine Cardinals, Detroit Heralds, Rock Island Independents, Minneapolis Marines, Cleveland Tigers, Canton Bulldogs, and Toledo Maroons ), and went to the meeting in Canton, Ohio at which the APFA was formed in 1920.

Posting an email addressed to all players under contract with the Cleveland City Stars and written by team president Jonathan Ortlip and executive director Aaron Tredway, the club executives went on to accept the decision to terminate the franchise.

Lalime went back to Cleveland for a third season in 1996 – 97 and remained with the Lumberjacks until early November.

He took a midnight train out of Cleveland Saturday, without an official word to anybody, and has stayed away from newsmen on his train trip across the nation to Reno, Nev., where his wife, former Olympic Diving Champion Zoe Ann Olsen, awaited.

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.

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.

* 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.

Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes ( 1906 ), produced on Broadway.

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.

* Comprehensive article on Watterson's career and reclusiveness from Cleveland Scene

The resulting controversy ended when representatives of Cleveland and the NFL reached a settlement on February 8, 1996.

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.

Established in 1927 near Panama City, on the Florida panhandle, Bob Jones College moved to Cleveland, Tennessee in 1933, and to its present campus in Greenville, South Carolina in 1947, where it became Bob Jones University.

The Cleveland area showered support on the Browns from the outset.

Cleveland then won a playoff game 8-3 against the New York Giants on December 17 behind a pair of Groza field goals, turning the tables on a team that handed the Browns both of their regular-season losses.

That set up the NFL championship match between the Browns and the Los Angeles Rams a week later in Cleveland, a game the Browns won 30-28 on a last-minute Groza field goal.

Cleveland faced the Rams on December 23 in a rematch of the previous year's title game.

Still, Cleveland finished the regular season 9 – 3 as Graham and Lavelli excelled on offense and linemen Len Ford and Don Colo held up the defense.

Dante Lavelli and Frank Gatski retired at the end of the season, leaving Groza as the only original Cleveland player still on the team.

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

Lajoie arrived in Cleveland on June 4 and was an immediate hit, drawing 10, 000 fans to League Park.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

The road uniform is gray, with " Cleveland " in navy blue block letters trimmed in red is across the front of the jersey, navy blue piping around the sleeves, and the Chief Wahoo logo located on the left sleeve.

Select games can be heard on WMMS FM 100. 7 when there is a conflict with Cleveland Cavaliers basketball games, which also air on WTAM.