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Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.
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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.
The White Sox lost 2 of 3 in their final series, while Cleveland won 4 and lost 2 in their final two series.
However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.
For the 1999 season, Cleveland added relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón and second baseman Roberto Alomar, brother of catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr, and won the Central Division title for the fifth consecutive year.
Seattle and Cleveland met in the first round of the playoffs, however the Mariners won the series 3-2.
Young won three games in the series and Cleveland won the Cup, four games to one.
The underdog Marlins went on to face the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series, and won in seven games.
In the 1997 National League Championship Series, Brown, riddled with the flu, proceeded to pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians.
Cleveland won praise for his honesty, independence, integrity, and commitment to the principles of classical liberalism.
The Democrats spread the word of this insult in the days before the election, and Cleveland narrowly won all four of the swing states, including New York by just over one thousand votes.
Ten governors have been major-party candidates for president, and six-including Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt-have won.
A bright spot came in 1915, when the Phillies won their first pennant, thanks to the pitching of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the batting prowess of Gavvy Cravath, who set what was then the modern major-league single-season record for home runs with 24.
Denver then won the AFC Championship Game in an exciting game over the AFC Central champion Cleveland Browns 38-33 for the second consecutive year.
The economy was prosperous and the nation was at peace, but Cleveland lost reelection in the Electoral College, even though he won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin.
Hendricks ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1876, but won the office when he ran again with Cleveland in 1884.
Cleveland, who had won the popular vote against Harrison in 1888, lost the electoral vote ( and thus the election ) in that year.
The new Populist Party, formed by groups from the Grange, the Farmers ' Alliances, and the Knights of Labor, polled more than a million votes, but Cleveland won easily.
During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.
A petition drive was signed by 600, 000 fans favoring Cleveland over Memphis, and a USA Today poll which Cleveland won by 100, 000 votes.
Fast and agile, in 1927 she easily won the competition for a place in the American Olympic team started by the Cleveland Press newspaper.
Cleveland won 43 games in both of the 1976 – 77 and 1977 – 78 seasons, but both seasons resulted in early playoff exits.
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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.
* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.
Some people suggested Cleveland was at best the dominant team in a minor league, while others were confident of its prospects in the NFL.
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.
Cleveland was not among its charter members, but by 1879 the league was looking for new entries and the city gained an NL team.
Cleveland went without major league baseball for two seasons until gaining a team in the American Association ( AA ) in 1887.
The Cleveland ball club, named the Spiders ( supposedly inspired by their " skinny and spindly " players ) slowly became a power in the league.
A former owner of a minor league franchise in Milwaukee, Veeck brought to Cleveland a gift for promotion.
In 1913, he served as manager of the Cleveland Green Sox of the Federal League, which was at the time an outlaw minor league.
Iin 1967 Banks played a season for the Cleveland Stokers of the American United Soccer Association ; this was a short lived attempt to build a first division U. S. league by importing clubs from around the world to play as U. S. teams.
In 1970, the Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Buffalo Braves ( now the Los Angeles Clippers ) all made their debuts expanding the league to 17.
The league began with eight teams: the Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets and New York Liberty in the Eastern Conference ; and the Los Angeles Sparks, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs and Utah Starzz in the Western Conference.
* Beau Mills, minor league baseball player, Cleveland Indians system
Baseball returned to Alexandria again in 1972, with the Aces as the San Diego Padres ' AA farm club, and while it only lasted four years, many major league notables passed through Alexandria-in particular All-Star pitcher Randy Jones and longtime Cleveland Indians first baseman John Grubb.
The league initially issued franchises for Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco.
This makes Winfield the only player in major league history to be traded for a dinner, though official sources list the transaction as a sale ( sold by the Minnesota Twins to the Cleveland Indians ).
* Leon Feingold, currently a pitcher in the Israel Baseball League, former minor league pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, and internationally ranked ( top ranking # 12 ) in the IFOCE ( International Federation of Competitive Eating )
* Ellis Burks, former major league baseball player and current special assistant to the General Manager of the Cleveland Indians
Eastlake is home to Classic Park, the home field of the Lake County Captains, a Class A minor league baseball team affiliated with the Cleveland Indians.
* Sammy Taylor, Major league baseball from 1958-1963 with the Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians, and Cincinnati Reds.
He spent – as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics and with the minor league New Orleans Pelicans before joining the Cleveland Naps at the end of the 1910 season.
He got his first major league base hit against Cleveland Indians ' pitcher Paul Assenmacher at Jacobs Field in the final game of the season.
On August 23, he did it in the second inning of a 3-1 win over the Cleveland Indians to become the third American League pitcher and seventh pitcher in major league history to accomplish the feat.
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