; 1890, Cleveland Infants — nickname " Babes "

The Cleveland Infants finished with 55 wins and 75 losses.

Edward James Delahanty ( October 30, 1867 – July 2, 1903 ), nicknamed " Big Ed ", was a Major League Baseball player from 1888 to 1903 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Infants and Washington Senators, and was known as one of the game's early power hitters.

As a result of these events, as well as other labor disputes throughout the sport, Browning – along with nearly all the game's stars – chose to jump to the Players League for the 1890 season, and played for the Cleveland Infants.

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There was talk of dragging old ex-President Cleveland out of retirement for another try.

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.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan ( 1905 ).

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.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

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.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

The outrage and controversy that erupted, as well as the NFL's desire to keep a team in Cleveland, led to an agreement whereby Modell was cleared to move his team ( which became the Baltimore Ravens ) but relinquished ownership of the Browns ' name, colors, logos and history.

Some sources say McBride was asked for thousands of dollars in compensation from a businessman who owned the rights to the name Cleveland Panthers, an earlier failed football team.

Some people suggested Cleveland was at best the dominant team in a minor league, while others were confident of its prospects in the NFL.

One of the new ownership group's first acts was to assure Cleveland fans they would give Brown the same kind of leeway.

Cleveland was coming off a series of bad drafts, including in 1954, when the team selected quarterback Bobby Garrett with the first pick.

Before the 1958 season, Cleveland was again in search of a quarterback.

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

When Paul Brown was fired by Art Modell, Brown still owned the equipment used by Cleveland.

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.

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.

Cleveland was thus the NA's westernmost outpost in 1872, the year the club folded.

Cleveland was not among its charter members, but by 1879 the league was looking for new entries and the city gained an NL team.

The Cleveland Forest Citys baseball team was then re-created.

In 1900 the team moved to Cleveland and was named The Cleveland Lake Shores.

On leaving the university, Guillaume joined the Karamu Players in Cleveland and performed in musical comedies and opera.

Marty Riessen, Cleveland, and Greer Stevens, Boston, won Most Valuable Players honors for the inaugural all star gala won by the East, 28-21, at the Inglewood Forum in Los Angeles.

Directors such as John Kenley, of the Kenley Players, and John Price, of Musicarnival — a music " tent " theater located in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb — regularly recruited black actors for their professional productions.,

Born in St. Louis, Hughes early life moved to Cleveland, where he attended Karamu programs and classes ; after he left Ohio, he kept in touch with the director, Rowena Jelliffe, and the Gilpin Players, who produced a number of his plays, including the premiers of ' When the Jack Hollars ( 1936 ), ' Troubled Island ' ( 1936 ), and ' Joy to My Soul '.

Wiester has taught jazz studies at Capital University in Columbus ( leaving that position in the early ' 90s ), and has worked with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, the Kenley Players, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, the Rick Brunetto Big Band, Ernie Krivda's Fat Tuesday Big Band, and many others including his own big band, the Famous Jazz Orchestra.

* 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.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Bengals were founded in as a member of the American Football League ( AFL ) by former Cleveland Browns head coach Paul Brown.

Originally called the Cleveland Bluebirds, the team played in League Park until moving permanently to Cleveland Municipal Stadium in.

; 1865-1868 Forest Citys of Cleveland ( Minor League )

The National League required distinct colors for the 1882 season, so the Cleveland Forest Citys became the Cleveland Blues.

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

Following the 1899 season, the National League disbanded four teams, including the Cleveland franchise.

In 1901 Cleveland renamed itself the " Bluebirds " when the American League broke with the National Agreement and declared itself a competing Major League.

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

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.

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.

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

In, Cleveland broke another color barrier with the hiring of Frank Robinson as Major League Baseball's first African American manager.

Cleveland's struggles over the 30-year span were highlighted in the 1989 film Major League, which comically depicted a hapless Cleveland ball club going from worst to first by the end of the film.

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.

Young was traded back to Cleveland, the place where he played over half his career, before the 1909 season, to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.