The recently-disbanded Cleveland Blues team of the National League releases its players.

The Brooklyn Grays sign several players from the defunct Cleveland Blues club

American League is born January 28 1901

The bleachers at League Park during a Cleveland Indians game

Cleveland Blues rally for nine runs with two outs in the ninth inning to post an amazing 14-13 victory over the Washington Senators

Milwaukee manager Hugh Duffy hits umpire Al Mannassau 

The Detroit Tigers roll over Cleveland behind Ed Siever and Sport McAllister with what was the most lopsided score in American League history: 21 – 0

The Earl of Snohomish – Earl Averill is born

Charles Somers gives Nap Lajoie $28K

Furious when an old black ball is put into play when Cleveland is at bat in the last of the 11th and his objections are ignored by umpire Tom Connolly‚ Naps manager Nap Lajoiehurls the ball over the grandstand‚ suffering the loss of the game to Detroit by forfeit. Detroit was leading 6 – 5.

Boston Americans clinch their first AL pennant

With Napoleon Lajoie lining a major-league record three triples, Cleveland rolls past the Highlanders, 16 – 3.

Chick Stahl singles with two outs in the ninth to break up Bob Rhoads no hit bid

The St. Louis Browns trade second baseman Pete O’Brien to the Cleveland Naps in exchange for catcher Fritz Buelow.

Tiger manager Hugh Jennings tries to deal 21 year old Ty Cobb to the Indians for outfielder Elmer Flick.

Walter Johnson picks up his first major league victory

Near Lexington, Kentucky, the train carrying the Cleveland Naps is struck by two bricks, shattering windows.

Bob Rhoads, outdueling Frank Arellanes, the only Mexican-American playing in the majors, tosses a no-hitter, beating the Red Sox at Cleveland’s League Park, 2-1. Four years ago, the Indians right-hander held Boston hitless until Chick Stahl singled with two outs in the ninth inning.

On the last day of the season, future Hall of Famer Addie Joss hurls a perfect game, beating Ed Walsh and the White Sox, 1-0

Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young to the Cleveland Naps

Fanning Feat By Smokey Joe Wood

Neal Ball completes the first unassisted triple play

Nap Lajoie resigns as the manager of the faltering Cleveland club.

Addie Joss record 10 assist in no hitter

Ed Willett spoils the team’s debut in League Park, blanking Cleveland, 5-0

home plate umpire is Bill Dinneen becomes the only person in big league history to both throw a no-hitter and call one as an umpire

The White Sox play their last game at the 39th Street Grounds, losing to Cleveland, 7 – 2.

Connie Mack trades Joe Jackson to Cleveland for Bris Lord, a former A’s outfielder.

The “surprise of the year,” according to Ed Bang in Sporting Life, “came on July 30th when it was announced that the Naps had secured Joe Jackson from the New Orleans Pelicans for $5,000

Nap Lajoie despite 8-8 can not dethrone Ty Cobb

Cleveland Naps star pitcher Addie Joss dies unexpectedly in Toledo, Ohio, from meningitis

Ty Cobb hits in 40th straight

American League All-Stars play a benefit game for the family of Addie Joss.

Detroit Tigers christen Navin Field with a 6-5 win

Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario

Shoeless Joe Jackson completes the stolen base cycle when he swipes home in the seventh inning of the Indians’ 8-3 victory over New York at Cleveland’s League Park

Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox against the Cleveland Naps

pennant hopes go with Milan loss 

Boston rookie Ernie Shore stops the Naps in Cleveland, 4 – 1.

Napoleon Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians becomes only the second player of the modern era to reach 3,000 hits

Philadelphia Athletics purchase future Hall of Famer Nap Lajoie

The Naps are renamed the Indians

Nap Lajoie lines into a triple play against Sam Jones to end the game

The Browns’ George Sisler pitches a complete game against the Indians, losing, 1 – 0, to Guy Morton.

Chicago White Sox acquire outfielder Joe Jackson from the Cleveland Indian

Cleveland Indians take the field wearing numbers on their uniform sleeves

Tris Speaker has three hits against lefty Babe Ruth to finally drive him from the mound in the 8th inning

During Boston’s 4 – 0 win at Cleveland, Jack Barry has four sacrifices for the Sox, tying a major league record.

Philadelphia A’s hurler Joe Bush no-hits the Indians, 5 – 0 and Nap Lajoie plays his last game

In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers

Smoky Joe Wood is sold by the Boston Red Sox to Cleveland for $15,000

The Chicago White Sox acquire first baseman Chick Gandil from the Cleveland Indians for $3,500.

Stan Coveleski allows just three Detroit hits and Jack Graney scores the only run as Cleveland wins, 1 – 0.

The 3rd-place Indians finish their season with a 5 – 4 win over the A’s, the 10th win in a row for the Tribe. Ray Chapman doubles, then steals third base and home to lead the Indians.

Cleveland Indians centerfielder Tris Speaker executes the fourth unassisted double play of his career in Cleveland’s 8 – 4 loss to the Chicago White Sox.

With the anticipation of crime rates decreasing in the city, officials in Washington D.C. lift the prohibition on playing baseball on Sunday in the nation’s capital

Stan Coveleski of the Cleveland Indians pitches a 19-inning, complete game to defeat the New York Yankees 3 – 2

Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians physically confronts umpire John Connolly

Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack makes one of his biggest player mistakes

Cleveland’s right-hander Ray Caldwell no-hits the Yankees in the first game of a doubleheader sweep in New York, 3-0

Tris Speaker streak of 11 consecutive hits ends

Ray Chapman is beaned by Carl Mays

Ray Chapman dies in a hospital, one day after being beaned by Carl Mays

Red Faber beat the Yankees, 6 – 4

Jim Bagby wins his 31st game, clinching the pennant for the Indians

Cleveland Indians starter Stan Coveleski gives the Indians a 3 – 1 opening victory with a five-hit complete game

Brooklyn’s Rube Marquard is arrested when he tries to sell a ticket to an undercover cop

Indians’ Bill Wambsganss becomes the only player in World Series history to complete an unassisted triple play 

Tris Speaker scores the only run as Duster Mails yields three hits for a 1 – 0 in Game 6 1920 World Series

Hall of Famer Stan Coveleski of the Cleveland Indians wins his third game of the World Series, a 3 – 0 shutout of the Brooklyn Robins

Major League Baseball Season Recap 1920

New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes the 20th-century home run leader

Elmer Smith sets the record recording 7 straight extra base hits

four Philadelphia A’s pitchers combine to issue 16 walks in a game against the Cleveland Indians in a 17-3 lose

Ray Schalk throws out 3 runners at firstbase in the 8th inning

Joe Harris, formerly with the Cleveland Indians, is reinstated by Judge Landis 

Ralph Perkins has his second consecutive game with no putouts or assists, a major league record

Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians strikes out twice in one game for the first time in his career

Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators becomes the first pitcher to record 3,000 strikeouts

Indian first baseman Frank Brower goes 6-for-6, collecting a double and five singles. The 30 year-old infielder’s offensive output helps Cleveland rout the Senators at Griffith Stadium, 22-2.

Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians make a seven-player deal involving star first baseman George “Tioga” Burns

Al Simmons caps an amazing 13 run comeback with 2 out 3 run homer

Tris Speaker, player-manager for the Indians, takes some swings

Tris Speaker hits his 700th career double in the Indians’ 6 – 0 win over the Athletics

At Cleveland’s League Park, a crowd of 31,000 watch the Yankees hold back the Indians, 8 – 3, in the final of a six-game series. In the 7th, Babe Ruth parks his 43rd homer of the year and Lou Gehrig follows with another home run, both off Emil Levsen. Gehrig adds three doubles and five RBIs to lead the Yankee charge. Dutch Ruether picks up the New York win.

Tris Speaker resigns as manager after gambling scandal

Cleveland Indians hire Jack McCallister as their new manager

Cleveland spoils new Comiskey Park Debut

There is an unassisted triple play for the second consecutive day in the major leagues.

Babe Ruth clouts two consecutive home runs in his next time up Ruth Cleveland C Luke Sewell demands that the umpires inspect the Bambino’s bat

At Chicago, Lena Blackburne, filling in for manager Ray Schalk, ejected earlier in the game by Brick Owens, inserts himself as a pinch hitter in the 9th and singles. He comes around to score the winning run as the White Sox edge the Indians, 8 – 7.

Roger Peckinpaugh begins a six-year term as Indians manager.

Cleveland left fielder Charlie Jamieson starts a triple play

Milt Gaston sets a record giving up 14 hits in a 9 – 0 shutout over Cleveland

The Indians score eight in the 1st and nine in the 2nd in a 24 – 6 win over the Yankees at home. 

Rube Walberg’s shuts out the Indians 1-0 and scores the run

Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first American League player to hit a home run in his first major league at-bat 

At Cleveland’s League Park the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.

Jimmy Foxx clouts a drive over the double-deck roof in LF‚ one of the longest homers hit at Shibe Park.

In front of 55,000 fans at Yankee Stadium, the Indians tally nine runs with two outs in the ninth inning to rout the Bronx Bombers in the nightcap, 14-6. The Tribe’s comeback is assisted by two New York errors, including a miscue by Mark Koenig on a ground ball to short that would have ended the game.

Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his 500th home run

Jimmie Foxx and Mickey Cochrane homer in A’s win

A’s pull off two triple steals in one game

In the second of two games‚ Cleveland’s Wes Ferrell tops the Browns‚ 9 – 5‚ for his 13th straight win. The Indians take the opener as well‚ winning 13 – 8‚ as pitcher Willis Hudlin helps with a grand slam off the Brownies’ Dick Porter.

In the first game of a doubleheader‚ Ted Lyons of Chicago beats Wes Ferrell of Cleveland‚ 2 – 1‚ ending Ferrell’s winning streak at 13. It’s Ferrell’s first defeat since losing to Detroit on July 4 by a run. Lyons drives in the winning run with a triple to win his 20th on the year. Cleveland wins the nitecap‚ 4 – 2. Only 2 bases on balls are issued in the doubleheader.

Earl Averill hits three consecutive home runs

Cleveland Indians release future Hall of Famer Joe Sewell

Cleveland’s Wes Ferrell shuts out Washington, 6 – 0, scattering 10 hits, as the Senators leave 15 runners on base.

Ben Chapman hits three home runs at Yankee Stadium

Philadelphia A’s and Cleveland Indians score 35 runs in an 18-inning game

In front of a major league record crowd of 80,184, the Indians play their first game at Lakefront Stadium, losing to Philadelphia and Lefty Grove, 1-0.

Wes Ferrell of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first pitcher in the 20th century to win 20 or more games in each of his first four season

Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators makes an incredible major league debut.

For the first time in major league history, brothers on opposite teams hit home runs in the same game. Boston Red Sox catcher Rick Ferrell homers off his brother Wes Ferrellin the 2nd inning, but the Cleveland Indians pitcher returns the favor as he homers in the 3rd on a pitch called by his sibling. It is the only time that the Ferrell brothers homer in the same game.

Joe Sewell of the New York Yankees strikes out for the first time on the season

Walter Johnson assumes the managerial reins of the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians sign former Washington Senators star Sam Rice

Goose Goslin grounds into four consecutive double plays

The St. Louis Browns trade Bruce Campbell to the Cleveland Indians for Johnny Burnett, pitcher Bob Weiland, and cash considerations.

Bob Feller signs for one dollar

Red Ruffing Piles up 10 total bases

106 degrees temp is the hottest July 9th on record in New York – Cleveland routs NY

Bob Feller makes major league debut

Bob Feller makes his first major league start

17-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians strikes out 17 Philadelphia A’s in a 5-2 victory

Landis rules -Feller to stay with Indians

Gee Walker hits for Cycle in Reverse order

Ben Chapman Scores on Triple Steal

Johnny Allen, off to a 4-0 start for Cleveland, has an appendectomy in Boston and will miss eight weeks of the season.

Cleveland outfielders set a major league record when they fail to record a single putout in a 10-inning loss to the Yankees

Cleveland’s Johnny Allen wins his 12th straight

The University of Illinois suspends Lou Boudreau for taking illegal payments from the Indians

Bob Feller pitches the first of 12 career one-hitters

Jimmie Foxx drives in five runs on a pair of homers to pace the Red Sox to a 15 – 3 drubbing of Cleveland

Bill McGowan orders Cleveland pitcher Johnny Allen to trim off the tattered sleeves of his undershirt because they distract opposing batters

Cleveland’s Johnny Allen has his 12-game win streak snapped by the Red Sox.

In the first game of a twin bill at the Bronx ballpark, Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive triples. The Yankee Clipper’s offensive outburst helps the Bombers edge Cleveland, 8-7.

On Feller Day – Bob Feller mother is hit by a foul tip thrown by her son

Cleveland Indians and Philadelphia Athletics play the first night game in American League history

Cleveland’s Ben Chapman ties the modern major-league record with three triples, as Bob Feller notches his 13th victory, 4 – 2.

Full Radio Broadcast September 21 1939 – Walter Johnson is on the mic in todays game

Bob Feller hurls first and only opening day no hitter

In Boston‚ the Red Sox chase Bob Feller‚ 9 – 2‚ on homers by Ted Williams and Joe Cronin

Cleveland Indians players petitions owner Alva Bradley to fire Oscar Vitt as the team’s manager

Bob Feller fans 11 White Sox in gaining his 12th win of the year, 7 – 3

Cleveland and Detroit‚ deadlocked for 1st place square off on pitching duel between the two aces‚ Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser

Besides Bobo Newsom (21-5), Schoolboy Rowe (16-3), and Tommy Bridges (12-9), the Tigers’ pitching staff combines for a losing record. Needing one victory to gain the title, manager Del Baker decides to withhold Newsom and Rowe and picks Floyd Giebell, an obscure rookie just called in from Buffalo. Giebell shuts out the Indians, 2 – 0, to beat Bob Feller, who gives up just 3 hits. Not eligible for the World Series, Giebell will never win another game in the major leagues. During the game, unruly Cleveland fans shower the field with fruit and vegetables. At one point, a basket of green tomatoes is dropped onto Tigers C Birdie Tebbetts’ head while he sits in the bullpen.

Pitcher Bob Feller signs with the Cleveland Indians for a reported $30,000.

Joe DiMaggio extends his hitting streak to a major league record 56 games

Joe DiMaggio sees his hitting streak halted at 56 games

Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th game

Al Benton becomes the first major leaguer to have two sacrifice bunts in one inning

Bob Fellar becomes the first player to enlist after Pearl Harbor Attack

Cleveland Indians star Hal Trosky announces his retirement due to severe migraine headaches

The major league season starts with three new managers: Lou Boudreau (Cleveland Indians), Mel Ott (New York Giants) and Hans Lobert (Philadelphia Phillies).

Sketchley called out for batting out of order

Bob Feller with manager Ossie Vitt.

Mel Harder becomes 50th pitcher to win 200 games

With World War II travel restrictions still in effect, the Brooklyn Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain, New York, with 15 players in camp.

Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians makes his first appearance since his return from military duty

Bill Veeck, owner of the Cleveland Indians, hires Marsh Samuel away from the Sox to create a media guide for the Tribe.

Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators collects six straight hits

Owens narrowly beats case

Bill Veeck purchases the Cleveland Indians

Ted Williams hits 3 home runs to over shadow a 5-5 from Lou Boudreau

A bloop single in the 7th inning by former battery-mate Frankie Hayes deprives Bob Feller of a no-hitter against the White Sox

Cleveland Indians’ ace Bob Feller is clocked at 98.6 miles per hour by a U.S. Army device

The Indians send young OF Gene Woodling to Pittsburgh for veteran receiver Al Lopez

Bill Veeck, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, sets up a spring training camp there for the Cleveland Indians after Larry Doby signing

Cleveland Indians manager Lou Boudreau orders Jackie Price off the train at San Diego after Price lets loose two five-foot long snakes on the trip from Los Angeles. A coach full of women returning from the American Bowling Congress are extremely upset by the prank. After Indians owner Bill Veeck says “either the snakes go or Price goes,” the 35-year-old infielder’s days are numbered.

Bob Feller fires a one hitter as the Indians beat the Browns, 5 – 0

For the first time, the Cleveland Indians will play all their games at Cleveland Stadium. The Indians abandon League Park, where most weekday games have been played since Cleveland Stadium opened. New Cleveland owner Bill Veeck installs an inner fence to cut power alleys from 435 to 365 feet at Municipal Stadium.

At Cleveland Stadium, Bob Feller fires his second one-hitter in 10 days, stopping the Boston Red Sox, 2 – 0

Larry Doby Debuts and breaks color barrier in American League

Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first African-American to play in an American League game

Larry Doby makes his first start as a major league player

During the first game of a twin bill in front of 47,871 Tribe fans, Don Black retires the final ten A’s batters he faces to record the first no-hitter in the history of Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium. The crowd, the largest ever to witness a no-hitter, endures the rain and six walks as the Indians right-hander completes the 3-0 victory, the eighth no-no in franchise history.

Larry Doby and Hank Thompson make history

The Indians pick up Johnny Berardino from the Browns for Catfish Metkovich and $50,000

Cleveland sends pitcher Red Embree to the Yankees for outfielder Allie Clark

Former slugger Hank Greenberg, who tormented the Cleveland Indians for most of his career as a member of the Detroit Tigers, is hired as the Indians’ farm club director by Bill Veeck.

Larry Doby ties record with 5 strikeouts in one game

Doby has a big day leading tribe a win at Fenway

Joe DiMaggio connects for 3 homeruns including 2 against Bob Feller

Cleveland Indians draw a record crowd of 82,781 for a doubleheader at Municipal Stadium

Vic Raschi wins his 9th straigh over Bob Feller

Cleveland Indians sign Negro Leagues legend Satchel Paige to a contract, making him the oldest rookie in major league history.

Satchel Paige makes his major league debut for the Cleveland Indians

Satchel Paige gets his first major league win as Larry Doby hits a two-run homer and the Indians tack on another run in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8 – 5.

Negro leagues star Satchel Paige makes his first major league start

Before 66,000 fans, New York’s Vic Raschi (14-4) allows four singles in stopping the Indians, 5 – 0. Joe DiMaggio has a pair of doubles, drives in three runs, and swipes home on the front end of a double steal.

In Cleveland‚ 73‚484 fans watch the Indians and Yankees square off for 2 games. Trailing in the opener‚ an ailing Lou Boudreau hits a bases-loaded pinch single in the 7th to tie the game‚ and Satchel Paige wins it in relief‚ 8 – 6. Steve Gromek goes 7 innings in the nitecap to give the Indians a 2 – 1 win over rookie Bob Porterfield‚ making his major league debut.

The promise of Satchel Paige on the mound brings 51,013 to Comiskey Park to see “Ole Satch” pitch his first big league shutout as Cleveland wins, 5 – 0. He gives up five hits to run his record to 5-1. In his 12 appearances, Paige has attracted 201,829 fans.

Yankee first baseman Tommy Henrich hits his fourth grand slam of the season, tying one of the major league records established by Babe Ruth, who died yesterday. The Bambino set the record playing for the Red Sox in 1919, the year he hit 29 round-trippers in his final season in Boston.

Cleveland’s streak of victories (8), shutouts (4) and scoreless innings (47) ends in the ninth inning when Bob Lemon gives up three runs

Don Black, while batting in the second inning of the Cleveland Stadium contest against St. Louis, suffers a cerebral hemorrhage

Larry Doby’s first inning grand slam proves to be the difference when the Indians hand the Senators their 16th consecutive defeat, 6-3

Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Red Sox in a one-game playoff

Boston Braves beat Bob Feller and the Cleveland Indians, 1 – 0

Bob Lemon evens series 1-1

Facing only thirty batters, Indians’ rookie hurler Gene Bearden five-hits the Braves for a 2-0 victory in front of 70,000 fans in Cleveland.

Behind the solid pitching of Steve Gromek, the Indians win pivotal Game 4 of the Fall Classic, edging the Braves, 2-1, to take a 3-1 series lead

The largest crowd ever to attend a World Series game, 86,288 fans, jam into Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium to witness a showdown between two future Hall of Famers. Braves’ southpaw Warren Spahn beats Bob Feller and the Indians in Game 5 of the Fall Classic, 11-5.

Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the 1948 World Series

Lou Boudreau is selected as the American League Most Valuable Player, becoming the only manager to win a World Series and be named the Leagues MVP in the same season

Cleveland Indians acquire future Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn

Major League Baseball Season Recap 1948

Cleveland Indians reward player-manager Lou Boudreau with a two-year contract

A child poses with Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller at Burbank’s Olive Memorial Stadium in 1949.

Bob Feller tells the Cleveland Indians that he should receive a cut in pay after a subpar 15-14 season in 1949

Tribe crush Tigers 11-3

Bob Feller earns his 200th career victory

Clyde Vollmer’s pinch slam against Al Benton in the Sox’s 6-run seventh helps Boston to an 11 – 9 win

At Fenway Park the Red Sox come back from 12 – 1 deficits to beat the Indians 15 – 14

The Yankees blow a 6-run lead as Cleveland scores four in the 9th inning off Allie Reynolds to win, 8 – 7. Luke Easter’s 3-run home run – his second of the game – is the big blow, as the Yankees skid to second place, a half game behind Detroit and a half game ahead of Boston.

Cleveland Indians fire popular manager Lou Boudreau

Boston Red Sox sign future hall of famer Lou boudreau

Harry Suitcase Simpson and Bob Feller celebrate a 7-1 victory over the Red Sox

Mickey Mantle hits his first Yankee Stadium home run

Bob Feller fires a 2-hitter. Larry Doby has a homer and 4 RBIs to lead the Tribe in 16-0 rout

Cleveland Indians ace Bob Feller hurls the third no-hitter of his career

Hoot Evers strokes four singles and a double in the Tigers’ 13-3 rout of the Indians

Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees no-hits the Cleveland Indians

Clyde Vollmer hits a walkoff grandslam in 16th off Bob Feller

Bob Feller is the first 20 game winner stopping the Senators, 4 – 0

Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup after demotion to minors

Browns rookie Bob Nieman hits two home runs in his first two ML at bats, a record unequaled. They come against Mickey McDermott of the Red Sox, but Boston still wins 9 – 6. Boston has homers by Dom DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Walt Dropo.

Joe DiMaggio’s long triple off Bob Feller keys a 5 – 1 New York win

Joe DiMaggio scores the winning run on a squeeze bunt by Phil Rizzuto

Indian Larry Doby walks five times in a 15-2 drubbing of the Red Sox when Early Wynn picks up his 20th victory. The intimidating right-hander, who will win exactly 300 games in a 23-year big league career, will post 20 or more wins in five of those seasons.

Irvin breaks ankle misses 1952 season

Bob Cain of the St. Louis Browns and Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians each pitch one-hitters, with the Browns prevailing, 1 – 0

Art Houtteman loses a no hitter with 2 out in 9th

The Cleveland Indians’ power hitters dazzle the New York Yankees with a triple steal in the 1st inning

the Cleveland Indians shake things up  

Bob Feller tops 2,500 career strikeouts and pitches Cleveland into first place

Five time defending champs New York Yankees are eliminated from post season

The Indians, with a 3-2 victory over Detroit, clinch the American League pennant at Detroit’s Brigg Stadium

Cleveland Indians set an American League record with 111th victory

Willie Mays making a spectacular over-the-shoulder grab of a ball hit to deep to center field & Dusty Rhodes becomes the second player in World Series history to end a game with a homer

Al Rosen of the Cleveland Indians is doing a mighty stretch in an attempt to reach the ball as Wes Westrum

Gaints take game 2 of Series behind Johnny Antonelli and Dusty Rhodes

Giants go up 3 games to 0 over the Indians 1954 World Series Full Radio Broadcast

The Giants complete the World Series sweep of the Indians when Don Liddle beats Bob Lemon, 7-4

New York Giants Stun Cleveland Indians 1954 World Series

Chicago Cubs trade Future Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner

Major League Baseball Season Recap 1954

a rematch of last year’s World Series at Wrigley Field the New York Giants beat the Cleveland Indians again, 7 – 3. 

Cleveland Indians starters show up for a “pitching clinic” during a doubleheader sweep of the Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Stadium. Veteran Bob Feller pitches hitless ball for 6+ innings and hurls his major league record 12th one-hitter in a 2 – 0 victory in the opener, and in the nitecap rookie Herb Score strikes out the first nine batters (for a total of 16) en route to a 2 – 1 four-hit victory.

Cleveland Indians trade Larry Doby to the Chicago White Sox for shortstop Chico Carrasquel and outfielder Jim Busby

The New York Giants and Cleveland Indians cancel an exhibition game in Meridian, Mississippi, because of mass racial violence in neighboring Alabama.

“The Catch”, Part 2. A year and a half after one of baseball’s most celebrated moments, Willie Mays again robs Vic Wertz again

Bob Lemon wins his 200th career game

Outfielder Frank Robinson of the Cincinnati Reds is unanimously voted the National League Rookie of the Year

Cleveland Indians reject the Boston Red Sox’ offer of $1 million for star pitcher Herb Score

Willie Mays belts two home runs to lead the Giants to a 9 – 3 Cactus League win over the Cleveland Indians

Roger Maris hits a game-winning, grand-slam home run in the top of the 11th inning against Detroit

Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score is struck in the right eye by a line drive hit by the New York Yankees’ Gil McDougald

Ted Williams hits three home runs in the Boston Red Sox’ 9-3 win over the Cleveland Indians

Roger Maris awaits BP his first game at Yankee Stadium

Ray Moore blanks Cleveland, 6 – 0, as the Orioles pitching staff hurls its fourth consecutive shutout, for a new American League mark.

Al Lopez, who traded OF Larry Doby when he was managing the Cleveland Indians, does it again with the Chicago White Sox

Cleveland Indians trade pitcher Early Wynn for Minnie Minoso

Cleveland sends veteran C Jim Hegan and P Hank Aguirre to Detroit for C-OF Jay Porter and P Hal Woodeshick. Aguirre will pitch 10 years for Detroit.

Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles pull off a major five-player deal

1958 – Frank House of the Kansas City Athletics scores two runs as a pinch hitter in an eight-run 8th inning, as the Athletics trim the Cleveland Indians, 9 – 4. House’s feat is just only the sixth occurrence in major league history.

Cleveland Indians outfielder Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Roger Maris and responds with his first major league home run

Vic Power of the Cleveland Indians steals home twice in the same game

Cleveland Indians minority stockholders led by Hank Greenberg, sell to Chairman William Delay

The Cleveland Indians send OF Larry Doby to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for OF Tito Francona.

Yogi Berra commits an error as his errorless streak of 148 games for a catcher comes to an end in a New York 7 – 6 loss to Cleveland

Swarm of gnats delays the game between the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park

Rocky Colavito of the Cleveland Indians homers in four consecutive at-bats against the Baltimore Orioles

The Indians stretch their winning streak to eight games when Rocky Colavito snaps a 4 – 4 tie with an 8th-inning home run. Jim Perry, in relief of Gary Bell, picks up the win, 5 – 4, over New York.

GO GO Chicago White Sox clinch their first American League pennant in 40 years

The Reds send 2B Johnny Temple to the Indians for 2B Billy Martin, P Cal McLish, and 1B Gordy Coleman.

All-Star catcher Sammy White announces he will retire rather than report to the Cleveland Indians,

Tigers acquire Norm Cash

Rocky Colavito Traded to Tigers

In an effort to distract Ted Williams during his at-bats in the 6th and 8th innings, Indians CF Jimmy Piersall goes into a war dance in Centerfield

1960 – The Cleveland Indians trade OF Harvey Kuenn to the San Francisco Giants for OF Willie Kirkland and P Johnny Antonelli.

New Senators debut and win first game

Maris steals a homerun and Yankees win in 10

Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris homer in the twinbill sweep.

The Yankees sweep the Indians, 7 – 6 and 9 – 3, their 12th win in a row at home, and the Indians’ 20th loss in a row at Yankee Stadium – Full Radio Broadcast

Twins add Vic Power in Multi Player Deal

Mantle comes back from injury with pinch hit 3 run homerun

The Twins are first American League Team to hit two grand slams in one inning

Roger Maris hits his 49th and Mickey Mantle his 46th as the Yankees sweep a pair from the Indians

Sale of the Cleveland Indians is completed as Bill Daley and Gabe Paul take control.

Early Wynn of the Cleveland Indians wins the 300th – and final – game of his major league career

Cleveland Indians and Washington Senators play the 100,000th game in major league history

Cleveland’s manager Birdie Tebbetts suffers a heart attack

Luis Tiant debuts with a 4-hit, 11-strikeout, 3 – 0 win for Cleveland at Yankee Stadium. The losing pitcher is Whitey Ford. Tiant was brought up yesterday after posting a 15-1 record at Portland (AAA).

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Cleveland GM Gabe Paul has requested economic surveys of the Seattle, WA market in anticipation of a possible Indians move to the Northwest.

Cleveland Indians re-acquire popular slugger Rocky Colavito from the Chicago White Sox

Dave Morehead, who will lead the league in losses with 18 this season, no-hits the visiting Indians

Kansas City A’s re-acquire minor league outfielder Joe Rudi from the Cleveland Indians

The Orioles trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to the Indians for reserve catcher Camilo Carreon

Emmett Ashford umpires his first MLB game April 11 1965

Indians win 10th straight

Larry Brown and Leon Wagner are hurt in collision

Cleveland sends Gary Bell to Boston for OF Don Demeter and 1B Tony Horton. Bell‚ a 16-game winner last year‚ is 1-5 this season‚ but he’ll win 12 games for Boston during their pennant drive.

Al Kaline breaks his hand as he slams his bat into the bat rack after being struck out by Sam McDowell as the 2nd-place Tigers lose to Cleveland, 8 – 1

Dean Chance throws his second no-hitter of the month, defeating the Indians 2-1

Cleveland Indians acquire outfielder Jose Cardenal from the California Angels for infielder-outfielder Chuck Hinton

Luis Tiant strikes out nineteen Twins and scatters six hits in a ten-inning 1-0 complete-game victory against Minnesota at Cleveland Stadium. ‘El Tiante’, who equals Sandy Koufax’s record for 41 strikeouts for three consecutive games, becomes the second hurler to whiff more than 18 batters in an American League contest, behind only Tom Cheney of the Senators, who recorded more when he punched out 21 Baltimore batters in a 16-inning game in 1962.

Ron Hansen turns the 8th unassisted triple play in history

In the 1st inning, Washington SS Ron Hansen turns the 8th unassisted triple play in major league history and the first in 41 years. Cleveland’s Joe Azcue hits a liner to Hansen, who steps on second base to double Dave Nelson, and tags Russ Snyder sliding into second base for the third out. Hansen’s effort is not enough, as Washington loses, 10 – 1.

Mickey Mantle’s last appearance at Yankee Stadium

President Richard Nixon watches the Senators for the 4th time this season, and they finally win one for him, beating the Indians, 3 – 0, behind Joe Coleman’s four-hitter.

Cleveland trades pitchers Luis Tiant and Stan Williams to the Twins for 3B Graig Nettles and three others

Cleveland Indians lose Ken Harrelson for most of the season when he fractures his leg

Baltimore Orioles outfielder Don Buford slams home runs from both sides of the plate in a 13-1 rout

Indians players Bob Miller, Ted Uhlaender, Graig Nettles, and Dean Chance in 1970

Yastrzemski clears centerfield wall

Cleveland’s Tony Horton hits 3 home runs versus New York‚ but the Yankees win anyway, 8 – 7, in 11 innings.

Tony Horton crawls back to dugout after fouling out vs the Folly Floater

Bobby Murcer ties record with 4 homeruns in a double header

Stadium Bomber Faces Prison after hitting Ray Fosse with Cherry Bomb

Cleveland edges the Orioles, 10 – 9, helped by Tony Horton, who hits for the cycle. Dennis Higgins is the winning pitcher.

Bernie Brewer leaves his perch for the first time in 40 days

Cleveland Indians pitcher Steve Dunning becomes first AL pitcher to hit a grandslam after the DH (it will be 37 years until the next one)

Tom McCraw of the Washington Senators hits one of the shortest home runs in history

Jim Palmer becomes the fourth member of the Baltimore Orioles to register 20 wins

Multiple Hall of Famers traded November 29, 1971

Giants trade Gaylord Perry to Cleveland

American League approves the sale of the Cleveland Indians by Vernon Stouffer

Ted Simmons, who has been playing all season without a signed contract, signs a new contract with the St. Louis Cardinals

The New York Yankees make one of their best trades ever, acquiring third baseman Graig Nettles from the Cleveland Indians for catcher John Ellis, infielder Jerry Kenney, and outfielders Charlie Spikes and Rusty Torres. Nettles will help the Yankees win the World Series in 1977 and 1978.

Orange baseballs are used for the first time in major league history

Designated hitter Ron Lolich, Mickey’s cousin, hits a two-out walk-off grand slam off Sonny Siebert

Chicago White Sox hurler Wilbur Wood picks up his 12th and 13th wins of the season

White Sox pitcher Stan Bahnsen shuts out the Indians, 2 – 0, but gives up 12 hits while doing it, two shy of the record in a shutout.

Rod Carew and Harmon Killebrew both lost homers in a rained out game in Cleveland.

Brothers Gaylord and Jim Perry face each other for the only time in their careers

Gaylord Perry strikesout 2,000 batter

Perry brothers united in Cleveland

Dodgers get Pedro Guerrero

Cleveland Indians hold “Ten-Cent Beer Night” at Municipal Stadium

Carlton Fisk is lost for the season after home plate collison

Dick Bosman of the Cleveland Indians hurls a no-hitter

Detroit hits four home runs in the 1st inning in an 8 – 2 win over the Indians

Cleveland Indians purchase former National League batting champion Rico Carty from the Mexican League

Dave Nelson of the Texas Rangers steals second, third base, and home plate in the same inning

Behind the complete-game pitching performances by Dave McNally and Mike Cuellar, the Orioles sweep a twin bill, blanking Cleveland twice, 2-0 and 1-0. The victories are the fourth and fifth consecutive shutouts thrown by the Birds, who establish an American League mark by hurling 54 straight scoreless frames.

Gaylord Perry wins his 20th and will be the last Indian pitcher in the twentieth century to win twenty games.

Frank Robinson becomes the first black manager in major league history

Baltimore Orioles trade first baseman Boog Powell

Frank Robinson – first black manager debuts

New York Yankees acquire Chris Chambliss

Dennis Eckersley shuts out world champion A’s in first major-league start

Cleveland Indians trade future Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry to the Texas Rangers

Bert Campaneris of the Oakland A’s steals five bases in an 8-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

Dennis Eckersley and Stan Thomas combine on a one-hitter as Cleveland stops the Orioles‚ 4 – 0.

Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians makes his final major league appearance as a player

Brooks Robinson hits walkoff for final homerun

Dennis Eckersley pitches a no-hitter as the Cleveland Indians beat the California Angels, 1 – 0. Frank Tanana, with three shutouts in his last four games, is the loser.

Ruppert Jones of the Seattle Mariners hits a home run off Dennis Eckersley in the fifth inning to snap Eckersley’s no-hit string of 22 1/3 innings

Indian right-hander Dennis Eckersley’s consecutive no-hit inning streak ends at 22.1 innings, two-third of a frame shy of Cy Young’s major league mark

Cleveland Indians fire Frank Robinson, major league baseball’s first black manager

Milwaukee’s Bill Travers allows 14 runs It will be 21 years before another pitcher allows 14 runs

Under the financial reorganization of the club, Steve O’Neill becomes the principal owner of the Cleveland Indians.

Boston Red Sox acquire pitcher Dennis Eckersley and catcher Fred Kendall from the Cleveland Indians

Well-traveled Bobby Bonds who joins his fifth team in five seasons

Jim Palmer records the 200th victory of his career

Boston Red Sox win their eighth consecutive games force playoff game in 1978

Bobby Bonds of the Cleveland Indians hits his 300th career home run 

Indians Fine George Hendrick $300 for poor play

George Brett tears ligaments in his ankle and misses a month

Cleveland’s Bert Blyleven holds Toronto hitless for 8 innings before Lloyd Moseby doubles to lead off the 9th

Len Barker of the Cleveland Indians pitches a perfect game against the Toronto Blue Jays

Hayes for 5 Horses (Philly trades 5 players for Von Hayes)

The Mariners trade 2B Tony Bernazard to the Indians for OF Gorman Thomas and IF Jack Perconte.

The Yankees obtain third baseman Toby Harrah in 6 player deal

Chicago sends outfielders Joe Carter and Mel Hall and a minor leaguer to Cleveland for pitchers Rick Sutcliffe and George Frazier and catcher Ron Hassey

Record 458 Games played before first rain out

Oddibe McDowell becomes the first Ranger player to hit for the cycle. His seventh-inning home run completes the unique event, but the center fielder adds another round-tripper in the following frame when Texas beats the Indians at Arlington Stadium, 8-4.

The Indians sign free agent Tom Candiotti to a AAA contract

Legendary major league owner Bill Veeck dies at the age of 71

Carney Lansford is credited with an unusual two-run inside-the-park homer in the A’s 5-3 victory

” What do you expect when they build a ballpark on the ocean”

Phil Niekro of the Cleveland Indians and Don Sutton of the California Angels become the first 300-game winners to face each other during the 20th century

Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell hit back to back homers for the third time in a month

In the Red Sox’s 24-5 rout the Indians, Spike Owen ties a major league mark, becoming the first major leaguer to score six runs in a game since Johnny Pesky 40 years ago

Cleveland’s Joe Carter belts three home runs at Fenway

Phil Niekro becomes the 3rd man to start 700 games

Niekro brothers pass the Perry’s in combined wins

Minnesota Twins trade for Steve Carlton during pennant drive

Paul Molitor 39 game hitting streak halted – longest AL streak since Joe DiMaggio

Indian first baseman Joe Carter, swiping his career-high 30th base, becomes the tenth major leaguer to hit 30 home runs and to steal 30 bases in the same season

Former Indian outfielder Brett Butler signs a two-year, $1.8 million free-agent deal with the Giants. The 31 year-old leadoff hitter, who will play a vital role when San Francisco captures the NL pennant in 1989, replaces Chili Davis, who signed with the Angels, as the team’s center fielder.

New York Yankees acquire Mel Hall when they realize Dave Winfield will miss season

1The Pittsburgh Pirates acquiring shortstop Jay Bell from the Cleveland Indians in exchange for fellow shortstop Felix Fermin

Rickey Henderson of the New York Yankees gets his his 800th career stolen base 

The Cleveland Indians lose to the Detroit Tigers, 7 – 2, to drop their record to 21-22, but remain in first place in the AL East by percentage points. It marks the latest point in a season a sub-.500 team has been in first place.

Joey Belle singles off Nolan Ryan in his debut

Joe Carter hits 3 homeruns for second time in season

Joe Carter is sent by the Indians to San Diego for Chris James, Sandy Alomar and Carlos Baerga.

Baltimore Orioles play the first game in the history of Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Matt Young loses despite no hitter

Robin Yount becomes the 17th and third youngest player to reach the 3000 hits milestone

Astros release pitcher Jason Grimsley, whom they acquired for pitcher Curt Schilling the previous year

Carlos Baerga of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first player to switch-hit home runs in the same inning

George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits his 300th home run

Carlos Martinez flyball caroms off the head of Jose Canseco and bounces into the stands for a home run

Nolan Ryan wins the 324th and last victory of his 27-year career

Jim Abbott of the New York Yankees throws a 4-0 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians

Cleveland Indians inaugurate Jacobs Field with a 4-3 victory

Eddie Murray breaks Mickey Mantle record by hitting home runs from both sides of the plate in a game for the 11th time

Indians’ Jason Grimsley crawls 100 feet along a ceiling, drops down into the dressing room, and exchanges Belle’s bat for one of Paul Sorrento’s.

David Bell makes his debut for the Cleveland Indians, representing the third generation of his family to play in the major leagues

Eddie Murray the second switch hitter to collect 3,000 hits

Indians closer Jose Mesa picks up his 37th save in as many opportunities to set a major league record. The right-handed reliever pitches a scoreless ninth inning to preserve the Tribe’s 8-5 win over Milwaukee at Jacobs Field.

Cleveland Indians clinch a post-season berth faster than any team in history

Tony Peña hits a home run to left field in the 13th inning to give the Indians a 5 – 4 victory over the Boston Red Sox in first ALDS

Tom Glavine Pitches the Braves to their first title in Atlanta with a 1-0 win

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Dave Winfield announces his retirement at the age of 44

The Yankees christen Legends Field, their new $30 million, 31-acre complex in Tampa

Belle blows up Vina

Manny Ramirez hits Josias Manzanillo hit the groin with a 107 mph line drive

Indians and brewers tie mark by hitting 11 homeruns in 9 inning game

the coldest start of any postseason game on record but Indians’ bats come out smoking in Game 4 of the World Series

Edgar Renteria singles home Craig Counsell, giving the Florida Marlins their first World Series title with a 3-2 win over the Indians

The Indians sign free agent OF Kenny Lofton to a three-year contract, and free agent P Dwight Gooden to a two-year pact. They also trade OF Marquis Grissom and P Jeff Juden to the Brewers in exchange for P Ben McDonald, Ron Villone, and Mike Fetters. Fetters is then sent to the Athletics in exchange for P Steve Karsay.

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Dennis Martinez announces his retirement

Hall of Famer and 300 game winner Early Wynn dies at the age of 79 from complications caused by a stroke

Indians manager Mike Hargrove accidentally hands in an incorrect lineup card, forcing Cleveland to forfeit the designated hitter and bat starting pitcher Charles Nagy in the 7th spot in the batting order

Indians get a Chili Reception as Yankees rout them 21-1, (Chili Davis goes 5-6)

Wade Boggs of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays becomes the first major leaguer to hit a home run for his 3,000th hit

1The Boston Red Sox set an all-time postseason record by scoring 23 runs in defeating the Cleveland Indians, 23 – 7

An ailing Pedro Martinez no hits Indians forSix innings to win ALDS

Bob Lemon dies at the age of 79

Manny Ramirez hits a 1st-inning grand slam and adds a two-run home run to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 16 – 0 rout of the Kansas City Royals

Kenny Lofton’s ties a MLB scoring in 18 straight games

A panel of veteran baseball writers, historians and executives selects a roster of the Top 100 Greatest Cleveland Indians Players, as part of the club’s 100th Anniversary Celebration.

The Braves trade John Rocker  after his negative comments about New Yorkers, homosexuals, unwed mothers and immigrants appeared in Sports Illustrated.

Cleveland Indians general manager Mark Shapiro is selected Major League Baseball Executive of the Year by The Sporting News.

Travis Hafner, during Cleveland’s 11-run first inning at Jacobs Field, ties Don Mattingly’s single-season mark for grand slams

Cleveland rookie Kevin Kouzmanoff hits a grand slam in his first major league at-bat, on the first pitch

Boston Red Sox complete a comeback from a three-games-to-one deficit to win the American League Championship Series over the Cleveland Indians

Tim Wakefield become the Red Sox’ all-time leader in innings pitched passing Roger Clemens

Jamie Moyer serves up the 505th home run of his major league career

Ervin Santana, facing only two hitters over the minimum, no-hits the Indians at Progressive Field, 3-1

The Indians and Blue Jays set a record by playing 16 innings on Opening Day before Toronto wins the game, 7 – 4, on a three-run homer by J.P. Arencibia 

Four Indians pitchers make a bid for a combined no-hitter 

Cleveland Indians outfielder Abraham Almonte receives an 80-game suspension for testing positive for an anabolic steroid.

the first World Series game played at Wrigley Field in 71 years, the Indians eke out a 1 – 0 victory over the Cubs 

The Cubs win their first World Series title in 108 years

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Trevor Bauer pulled with no no after 7

Indians romp the Red Sox 16-5