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 ".

Several attempted invasions of Canada were fiascos, but the U. S. did seize control of western Canada and broke the power of hostile Indians in battles in Canada and Alabama.

General warfare broke out and Indians made many raids on the trail along the South Platte which Denver depended on for supplies.

In 1675, when King Philip's War broke out, some of the town's Indians, ( especially in the southern part of the town ) sided with the Mohegans and the English while others sided with the Indians led by Philip, rallying to arms on what is now Curtis Island in present Holland, Massachusetts and Brimfield, Massachusetts.

Thinly disguising themselves as " Indians ", they broke into the Colonial Advocates office in broad daylight, smashed the printing press, and threw the type into Lake Ontario.

Despite the Indians ' flanking fire, Johnson broke through, the British cannon having failed to fire.

In the 1970s a historiographical range war broke out between the " old " Western histories, which stressed the influence of the frontier on all of American culture, and the so-called " new Western history " which looked more narrowly at the trans-Mississippi West after 1850 and stressed cultural interaction between Americans and minorities such as Indians and Hispanics.

Charboneau broke out in 1979 with a. 352 average for the Indians ' AA team in Chattanooga, pacing the Southern League.

Born in Snohomish, Washington, Averill broke into the major leagues in 1929 ( at the age of 27 ) with the Cleveland Indians.

As it happened, the Indians broke that drought the following year, appearing in the 1995 World Series.

The Indians broke off the attack in the afternoon.

At sundown gunfire broke from Indians in the breaks, who had located themselves so they could fire down into the entrenchment.

After dark the Indians broke into the supplies, and took what they found desirable in the dark.

Despite incompetent government management, and a series of defeats early on, Americans found new generals like Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Winfield Scott, who repulsed British invasions and broke the alliance between the British and the Indians that held up settlement of the Old Northwest.

In 1675, when King Philip's War broke out, Dudley was a commissioner who accompanied the colonial troops into the field against the Indians.

In 1774, Clark was preparing to lead an expedition of ninety men down the Ohio River when war broke out with the American Indians.

When Gandhi broke the salt laws at 6: 30 am on April 6, 1930, it sparked large scale acts of civil disobedience against the British Raj salt laws by millions of Indians.

Even though it succeeded in raising millions of Indians in protest against the British created Rowlatt Acts, violence broke out at Chauri Chaura, where a mob killed 22 unarmed policemen.

Luckenbach was first established as a community trading post and was one of the few that never broke a peace treaty with the Comanche Indians, with whom they traded.

A fight broke out and two Indians were killed.

In Peru, Guevara was impressed by the old Inca civilization, forced to ride in trucks with Indians and animals after " The Mighty One " broke down.

An infielder, he broke into the major leagues on September 3 1948, with the Cleveland Indians.

Born in Johnsburg, Illinois, and signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in out of the University of St. Thomas, Hiller broke in with the San Francisco Giants.

* 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.

Opening Day in 1946 had Lemon as the Indians ' center fielder.

But just days before the Opening Day of the season, Indians general manager Frank Lane traded him to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn, who had won the 1959 batting title.

* April 19, 1960-The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians played 15 innings on Opening Day, tying the record for the longest Opening-Day game.

He fought through a difficult recovery and was healthy enough to throw out the first pitch at the Indians ' Opening Day on April 12,.

Mayor Thomas Lynch Raymond declared April 27 a " half-holiday " for the city of Newark for the Indians ' Opening Day.

He returned to action as the Indians ' 2010 Opening Day starter.

The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest, Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0-395-85011-8.

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.

In the mid twentieth century, West Indians moved the timing of the New York area Carnival from the beginning of Lent to the Labor Day weekend.

In 1757, during the French and Indian War, Sabbath Day Point was used as an encampment and staging area for the French Army and nearly two thousand Ottawa Indians in an expedition to capture the British Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George.

Later at the Sabbath Day Point base camp, the Indians cannibilized some of the captured British prisoners.

In addition to the above traditions, some groups of Mardi Gras Indians stage their last procession of the season on the Sunday nearest to St. Joseph's Day otherwise known as " Super Sunday ," after which their costumes are dismantled.

On August 10, 2007, the Indians paid tribute to Doby on Larry Doby Day by collectively using his number ( 14 ) on their uniforms.

The National Day of Mourning is an annual protest organized since 1970 by American Indians of New England on the fourth Thursday of November, the same day as Thanksgiving in the United States.

On June 28, 2000, Yankees GM Brian Cashman finalized a trade with Indians GM John Hart, sending Jake Westbrook, Zach Day and Ricky Ledee to Cleveland for Justice.

Indian Arrival Day was first celebrated in Skinner Park, San Fernando, as the East Indian Centenary on May 30, 1945 which marked the hundredth anniversary of the coming of Indians to Trinidad.

In 1977 IRRA formed committee was established to revive the memory of the coming of Indians to Trinidad on May 30, 1845-Indian Emigration Day.

The only home run ball ever hit completely out of Memorial Stadium was slugged by Frank Robinson on Mother's Day in 1966, off Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Tiant.

Kids ' Fun Day activities at Gateway Plaza prior to a 2007 Indians game

The introduction to the Latter Day Saint ( LDS ) edition of The Book of Mormon states, " he Lamanites are among the principal ancestors of the American Indians.

He found his friend King John IV dead and the court a prey to faction, but, dauntless as ever in the pursuit of his ambition, he resorted to his favorite arm of preaching, and on Epiphany Day, 1662, in the royal chapel, he replied to his persecutors in a famous rhetorical effort, and called for the execution of the royal decrees in favor of the Indians.

In the same season Tait played a One Day match for the Prime Minister's XI against the touring Indians in a team captained by Steve Waugh and was also a part of the Australia A team that took on Zimbabwe in January 2004.

To the delight of a Bat Day crowd of 44, 387 on August 16, Mason descended from his trailer following the Brewers 4-3 win over the Indians.

On June 29, 2000, the Yankees traded Westbrook with fellow sinker ball pitcher Zach Day and outfielder Ricky Ledée to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder / designated hitter David Justice in their quest to eventually win the 2000 World Series.