A filé gumbo is thickened with sassafras leaves after the stew has finished cooking, a practice borrowed from the Choctaw Indians.

The winningest season in franchise history came in, when the Indians finished the season with a record of 111-43 (. 721 ).

Young Indians teams finished far out of contention in 2002 and under new manager Eric Wedge.

Despite the solid offensive performance, the bullpen struggled with 23 blown saves ( a Major League worst ), and the Indians finished a disappointing fourth.

Grady Sizemore had a career year, winning a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger, and the Indians finished with a record of 81-81.

The Indians finished the season tied for fourth in their division,

The Indians finished the season in 2nd place, 15 games behind the division champion Tigers.

Robinson finished his playing career with brief appearances for the Los Angeles Dodgers, California Angels and Cleveland Indians.

* In 1948, the Red Sox finished the regular season tied for first place, only to lose the pennant to the Cleveland Indians in the major leagues ' first-ever one-game playoff.

That year, the Gunners finished in second place with a 4-3-1 record, just behind the Chicago Indians ' 5-1-0.

He helped the Indians win a franchise-record 111 wins and AL pennant in and finished second in the AL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award voting as he was the season's RBI leader and home run champion for the second time in three seasons.

Doby finished the game 1-for-4, recording his first major league hit and RBI in a 5 – 1 Indians win.

Nationally-syndicated columnist Grantland Rice argued that Doby and Gene Bearden, the Indians would have finished in fourth or fifth place.

However in 2002 when the Indian R. B. Ramesh finished first and several other Indians took top prizes it led to many top Britons not competing in the 2003 championship and accompanied criticism that the British Championship was not serving the interests of British players.

He finished the game as the Red Sox catcher, as Boston defeated the Cleveland Indians 11-3.

In 1947 he joined the major league Indians during spring training but before the regular season started was sent by Cleveland coach Bill McKechnie to Class A Wilkes-Barre Barons of the Eastern League, where he finished with 17 wins and a 3. 24 ERA.

The Indians finished five games behind the Chicago White Sox in the 1959 pennant race, the closest he would come to a title until 1967.

In 1954, the New York Yankees despite winning 104 games, finished second behind the Cleveland Indians in the American League.

Santana finished the season with an ERA of 2. 87, second-lowest in the AL behind Indians pitcher Kevin Millwood ( 2. 86 ).

The Indians finished second in the EL in 1909 and 1910.

He managed the White Sox to four winning-record seasons, but his club always finished behind the New York Yankees ( 1951, 1952, 1953 ) and the Cleveland Indians in 1954.

In 1940, he posted a 12 – 11 record, as the Indians finished one game behind the pennant-winning Detroit Tigers, wasting an early September lead amid clubhouse rancor ; it would be the only season in his career in which the Indians came within ten games of the AL flag.

He was named the MLB Rookie of the Year and finished third in the MVP voting in 1948 after playing a vital part of the Braves ' unlikely run to the pennant, their first since 1914, though he hit only. 167 in the World Series loss to the Cleveland Indians.

With childlike innocence she wrote of the Indians as `` walking with fruit and umbrellas in their hands, with the tawny children around them.

He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

These concessionaires traded where they wished and generally dealt with the Indians through engages, who might be habitants, voyageurs, or even soldiers.

In accord with its penurious policy, the company failed to furnish presents to hold the loyalty of the principal Indians.

But it coupled with this a requirement that Indians must bring their pelts to Mobile and thus save all costs of transportation into and out of the Indian country.

* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army

" From that day he stayed continually with Ammonius and acquired so complete a training in philosophy that he became eager to make acquaintance with the Persian philosophical discipline and that prevailing among the Indians.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Nap Lajoie, who won the 1903 American League Batting Championship with the Indians, and an MLB Hall of Fame r.

Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name, and they chose " Indians ".

The Indians, who at the time were locked in a tight three-way pennant race with the Yankees and White Sox, were not slowed down by the death of their teammate.

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.

By, Feller, along with Ken Keltner, Mel Harder and Lou Boudreau led the Indians to within one game of the pennant.

Despite being attached to the curse, Colavito said that he never placed a curse on the Indians but that the trade was prompted by a salary dispute with Lane.

The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

The Indians opened Jacobs Field in 1994 with the aim of improving on the prior season's sixth-place finish.

The World Series ended in disappointment with the Indians falling in six games to the Atlanta Braves.