* 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.

The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.

Some people said Linda had just announced the engagement to jolt John into some action, but when John came home from a business trip to Cleveland with Edythe, with Edythe his bride, it could no longer be John-and-Linda even to sentimental wishful thinkers.

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.

Meanwhile, the Browns unexpectedly had Cleveland to themselves ; the NFL's Cleveland Rams, who had continually lost money despite winning the 1945 NFL championship, moved to Los Angeles after that season.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

Sockalexis, a Native American, had played in Cleveland 1897 – 99.

Cleveland entered 1941 with a young team and a new manager ; Roger Peckinpaugh had replaced the despised Vitt ; but the team regressed, finishing in fourth.

Among the investors was Bob Hope, who had grown up in Cleveland, and former Tigers slugger, Hank Greenberg.

Recognizing that he had acquired a solid team, Veeck soon abandoned the aging, small and lightless League Park to take up full-time residence in massive Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

After defeating the wild-card Boston Red Sox 3-1 in the Division Series, Cleveland lost the 1998 ALCS in six games to the New York Yankees, who had come into the playoffs with a then-AL record 114 wins in the regular season.

Therefore, in 1890, Young signed with the Cleveland Spiders, a team which had moved up from the American Association to the National League the previous year.

One of the errors had originally been ruled a hit, but the Cleveland third baseman sent a note to the press box after the eighth inning, saying he had made an error, and the ruling was changed.

* Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President, had a dachshund in the White House.

While this sort of bipartisan graft had previously been tolerated in Buffalo, Mayor Cleveland would have none of it, and replied with a stinging veto message: " I regard it as the culmination of a most bare-faced, impudent, and shameless scheme to betray the interests of the people, and to worse than squander the public money ".

Cleveland saw the bill as unjust — Gould had taken over the railroads when they were failing and had made the system solvent again.

Tammany, under its boss, John Kelly, had not supported Cleveland's nomination as governor, and disliked him all the more when Cleveland openly opposed the re-election of one of their State Senators.

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.

Numerous one-off gnome parades have been held, including in Savannah, Georgia ( April 2012 ) and Cleveland, Ohio ( May 2011 ).

The image has been mentioned on some television shows such as a sketch on Talkshow with Spike Feresten, and dialogue on Archer, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show and 30 Rock.

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.

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.

Rollie Fingers was lost for the whole season with a torn muscle in his throwing arm, beloved slugger Gorman Thomas struggled badly offensively and was traded to the Cleveland Indians, and their ace, Pete Vuckovich, was revealed to have had a torn rotator cuff that had been plaguing him since 1981 and only pitched in 5 games in 1983.

The logo replaced the striping pattern that had been on the uniforms since the team's inception ; save for color variations, the striping pattern was similar to that used by the Washington Redskins ( until 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( until 1997 ), and Cleveland Browns ( still in use ), which is likely why the change was made.

The following inductees have also been elected to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame: Richie Ashburn, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, Mike Schmidt, broadcaster Harry Kalas, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Del Ennis, Chuck Klein, Ed Delahanty, Larry Bowa, Tug McGraw, and Dick Allen.

Although the Tigers have been the predominant MLB parent of the IL Mud Hens ( 1967 – 73 and since 1987 ), the team has also been affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1974 – 75 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1976 – 77 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1978 – 86 ) and the Yankees ( 1965 – 66 ).

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 ".

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.

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.

President Grover Cleveland, who had campaigned on lowering the tariff and supported Wilson's version of the bill, was devastated that his program had been ruined.

Cleveland may have been chosen as the organization's site because the city offered the best financial package.

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

Martin resigned the next day ( some sources have said he was actually fired ), and was replaced by Bob Lemon, a Hall of Fame pitcher for the Cleveland Indians who had been recently fired as manager of the White Sox.

Lamingtons have also been popular in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, for many decades.

Some bakeries in cities with many former Clevelanders, such as Los Angeles, also make them, under various names, such as Cleveland bars and rum bars ( when a bit of rum extract has been added to the chocolate icing ).

He returned to college in 1946 and resumed athletics, to which he had been inspired by Jesse Owens, who was also from Cleveland and had attended East Technical High School as well.

On June 16, 1986, Katz made two of the most controversial and highly criticized personnel moves in franchise history, trading Moses Malone to Washington and the first overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft ( which had been obtained from the San Diego Clippers in a 1979 trade for Joe Bryant ) to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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.