* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

* 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.

* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

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.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

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.

The buyers were a group of prominent Cleveland businessmen: Homer Marshman, an attorney, Dave R. Jones, a businessman and former Cleveland Indians director, Ellis Ryan, a former Indians president, Saul Silberman, owner of the Randall Park race track, and Ralph DeChairo, an associate of Silberman.

Proponents of the name acknowledged that the Cleveland Spiders of the National League had sometimes been informally called the " Indians " during Sockalexis ' short career there, a fact which merely reinforced the new name.

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.

In Bill Veeck formed an investment group that purchased the Cleveland Indians from Bradley's group for a reported $ 1. 6 million.

Prior to 1947 the Indians played most of their games at League Park, and occasionally played weekend games at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

The Cleveland Indians logo from 1946-1950

The Indians would appear in a film the following year titled The Kid From Cleveland, in which Veeck had an interest.

The Indians received Steve Demeter in the deal, who would have only five at-bats for Cleveland.

Cleveland Stadium had been a symbol of the Indians ' glory years in the 1940s and 1950s.

He made his first appearance in an Indians uniform since he left Cleveland after the 2002 season.

The Ohio Cup was an annual pre-season baseball game, which pitted the Ohio rivals Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds.

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.

In the polity of the Church of God ( Cleveland, Tennessee ), the international leader is the Presiding Bishop, and the members of the Executive Committee are Executive Bishops.

The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1996 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his intention to relocate the team to Baltimore.

The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Their chief rivals are the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers.

They are buried together in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also of note are division rivalries with the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Minnesota Twins.

The Cleveland Jewish News reported on the Oberlin event, writing: " Sondheim said: ' Movies are photographs ; the stage is larger than life.

** Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio ; 2 people are killed, 40 injured, and 116 arrested.

They are now kept at The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Now, " adult animation " programs, such as Aeon Flux, Beavis and Butt-head, South Park, Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad !, Aqua Teen Hunger Force ( currently known as Aqua Something You Know Whatever ), and Futurama are a large part of television.

Some native ranges of the white bass are the Arkansas River, Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio, and Lake Poinsett in South Dakota White bass have also been found in rivers that flow to the Mississippi.

Other notable All-Steinway Schools are the Yale School of Music at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Juilliard School located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, Royal Holloway, University of London in England, the University of Melbourne Faculty of the VCA and Music in Victoria, Australia, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.

Some examples are the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Ohio, and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, South Carolina.

Oklahoma City's city limits extend into Canadian, Cleveland, and Pottawatomie counties, though much of those areas outside of the core Oklahoma County area are suburban or rural ( watershed ).

Among Grampa's stories are the time he chased Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1922, the time John D. Rockefeller dropped silver dollars on him while floating in a Zeppelin, various times spent harassing Springfield's Irish immigrant community, listening to Thomas Edison recite the alphabet over the radio, when President Grover Cleveland spanked him on two nonconsecutive occasions, and when he " took a shot " at President Theodore Roosevelt.

These two teams are the Lake County Captains ( an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians playing in Eastlake, Ohio ) and the Bowling Green Hot Rods ( an affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays playing in Bowling Green, Kentucky ).

The Cleveland Cavaliers ( also known as the Cavs ) are an American professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.

Public schools in the county are managed by the Bradley County Schools school district or the Cleveland City Schools school district.

Sky Ridge Medical Center, formed from the buyout of Bradley Memorial Hospital and Cleveland Community Hospital, are the two hospitals in Bradley County.

The official team portrait of the 1948 Cleveland Browns, who recorded professional football's first-ever unbeaten and untied season.

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.

The next year the Spiders moved into League Park, which would serve as the home of Cleveland professional baseball for the next 55 years.

While many universities and professional sports teams ( for example, the Cleveland Indians, who had a Chief Wahoo ) no longer use such images without consultation and approval by the respective nation, some lower-level schools continue to do so.

The Browns took the ball back and drove to the Denver 8-yard line, but the drive ended with a play that became known as The Fumble resulting more bad luck in Cleveland professional sports lore: Denver defensive back Jeremiah Castille stripped the football from Browns running back Ernest Byner and recovered the ensuing fumble as Byner was rushing in for the potential tying touchdown, securing the Broncos ' win.

Soundstream's format was improved through several prototypes and when it was developed to 50 kHz sampling rate at 16 bits, it was deemed good enough for professional classical recording by the company's first client, Telarc Records of Cleveland, Ohio.

* Cleveland Cavaliers, a professional basketball team in the United States

* Milt Plum, former professional football player, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants ( Westville ).

* Joe Borowski ( born 1971 ), professional baseball player for the Cleveland Indians.

* E. J. Underwood, professional football player for the Cleveland Gladiators ; played for Edmonton Eskimos New York Jets, Buffalo Bills

* Jock Callander Hockey Player ( 1978 – 2000 ) for the Pittsburgh Penguins ( NHL ), Cleveland Lumberjacks ( IHL ), and other professional hockey teams.

* Rex Bumgardner: professional football player, Buffalo Bills ( 1948 – 1949 ) and Cleveland Browns ( 1950 – 1952 )

Prior to entering politics, Johnson was a professional basketball player in the NBA, playing point guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Phoenix Suns.

He played college football at Brigham Young University, where he was a two-time All-American ( 1980, 1981 ) and later in the professional ranks with the Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers.

* Lake Erie Monsters, a minor professional ice hockey team based in Cleveland, OH

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, the cost of doing business in professional ice hockey began to rise sharply with NHL expansion and relocation ( a process which involved the placing of teams in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Buffalo, forcing long-time AHL clubs in those cities to fold ) and especially the 1972 formation of the twelve-team World Hockey Association ( WHA ).

Immediately after winning the Anthracite League title, the Maroons issued challenges to both the NFL champion Cleveland Bulldogs and the Frankford Yellow Jackets, who claimed the Eastern professional championship.

In 1920, when owners of professional teams organized a more structured league, Jimmy O ' Donnell, a local sports promoter, obtained the Cleveland franchise.