* 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.

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

One of Lane's early trades in Cleveland was to send Roger Maris to the Kansas City Athletics in the middle of 1958.

An early, undated photograph of Grover Cleveland

Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

It marked his return to the Cleveland market, where Downey had been a host for crosstown radio station WERE ( 1300 AM ) in the early 1980s prior to joining KFBK.

Instead he retired early, after hearing news that his 80-year-old uncle, Thomas Garfield, had been killed in a locomotive accident in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The one developed by Brush performed best, and Brush immediately applied his improved dynamo to arc-lighting an early application being Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 29, 1879.

Cleveland won 43 games in both of the 1976 – 77 and 1977 – 78 seasons, but both seasons resulted in early playoff exits.

In early 1982, the Pistons acquired center Bill Laimbeer in a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers and guard Vinnie Johnson from the Seattle SuperSonics.

They would ( then ) tie the NBA's all-time worst single-season losing streak at 23 — only one game shy of the overall worst mark of 24 by the Cleveland Cavaliers of the early 1980s.

In 1996, Stang and Steve Bevilacqua, owner of the Flying Lemur Bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio, worked together to manage the corporate entity of the church, the SubGenius Foundation Inc. Their efforts helped to bolster the church's revival through the late 1990s and early 2000s, until Bevilacqua had to retire from church management in order to support his wife, Rachel Bevilacqua.

Cleveland County Schools comprises 29 campuses including four high schools and an early college high school.

Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield later told Rob Neyer that when Williams yanked McLain early from a July 5 game against the Cleveland Indians, McLain threatened to call Senators owner Bob Short and have him get rid of Williams.

During a radio interview in Birmingham to promote a British tour of Tom Stoppard's play Dirty Linen in the early 1980s, Cleveland confided an embarrassing incident in dress rehearsal.

He was a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, and the Boston Red Sox during the early 1960s.

In the early 1890s, President Grover Cleveland lowered tariffs on many imported goods, including knives.

Some say the town is named after Cleveland, England and other claim it is named after James Cleveland, an early settler.

The rapidly growing population of Cleveland, many of whom were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, moved south during the early twentieth century, resulting in sufficient population to qualify for incorporation as a city in January 1932.

South Euclid's rapid economic and population growth continued in the early decades of the 20th Century, partly driven by industry in nearby Cleveland.

Gennett also recorded early blues artists such as Thomas A. Dorsey, Sam Collins, Jaybird Coleman, and Big Boy Cleveland and early " hillbilly " or country music performers such as Vernon Dalhart, Bradley Kincaid, Ernest Stoneman, Fiddlin ' Doc Roberts, and Gene Autry.

At an early age, her family moved to East Cleveland, Ohio, and she attended public schools.

Select programs on WERE during this period ranged from America's Workforce ( labor issues in the Cleveland area ), to The Gay 90's ( homosexual and diversity issues ) to Talking Books ( interviews with literary figures ), to Those Antique Guys ( appraisals and commentary on antiques ).

By 1851 the " Chaumont suite " of early-16th century Late Gothic tapestries with subjects of courntry life emblemmatic of the triumph of Eternity, closely associated with Chaumont and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was still hanging in the " Chambre de Catherine de Médicis "; the tapestries had been cut and pieced to fit the room.

Gasson Hall is credited for establishing the typology of dominant Gothic towers in subsequent campus designs, including those at Princeton ( Cleveland Tower, 1913 – 1917 ), Yale ( Harkness Tower, 1917 – 1921 ), and Duke ( Chapel Tower, 1930 – 1935 ).

* Hello Cleveland !, a record label

Tatum worked first around Toledo and Cleveland and then later in New York at the Onyx Club for a few months ; he recorded his first four solo sides on the Brunswick label in March, 1933.

He briefly formed the electro / dance band Freebass, which produced a single, " Love is Like Oxygen ", ( a cover of The Sweet ) on underground dance label Cleveland City Records and was placed in the top ten of the Music Week UK Dance Chart.

Cleveland International Records is an independent record label formed in 1977 by Steve Popovich.

The label won a lawsuit in 2005 when Sony Music produced copies of the Bat Out of Hell CD without the Cleveland International logo.

Between December 1939 and February 1942, Rodziński and the Cleveland Orchestra made an extensive series of recordings for the Columbia Records label.

NBC took over the Philadelphia stations, rechristening 1060 AM as WRCV ( for the RCA-Victor record label ), and Westinghouse moved the KYW call letters to Cleveland.

While this label was still being used in the late 1950s ( e. g. Newsweek, 17 February 1958 ), the growing prestige of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner at this time saw the " Big Three " become the " Big Five ".

Al Cleveland ( born Alfred W. Cleveland, March 11, 1930-August 14, 1996 ) is a former American songwriter for the Motown label.

* There is a bluegrass version of the song, recorded in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Hotfoot Quartet in 1980 and released as a 45 rpm single on the Black Snake label.

An appearance at the first annual CMJ Cleveland and other North American tour dates coincided with the June 28, 2005 release of their major label debut, Punches.

The label was pushing “ It ’ s Love ,” but Cleveland disc jockey Bill Randall turned the record over and “ Teach Me Tonight ” soon took the nation by storm, peaking at No. 2 on the charts and selling more than five million copies to date.

The EP was jointly released through independent label, Hello Cleveland!

Telarc International Corporation is an independent record label, based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and founded in 1977 by two classically trained musicians and former teachers, Jack Renner and Robert Woods.

Originally a classical music-only label, the label has had a long association with Ohio's two most famous orchestras: the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.