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	Cleveland Indians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cleveland was one game out of first place in the Central Division behind Chicago when play was stopped.
		Rather, when the Naps needed a new name after Napoleon Lajoie was given to the Philadelphia Athletics after the end of the 1914 season Charles Somers, the team owner, asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name for the team.
		Moved to Cleveland in 1900 after the National League had vacated the city following the 1899 season, and when the Western League was renamed the American League.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleveland_Indians (1785 words)

	Cleveland Sports Legends \| Sample (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Cleveland was cruising along with a 4–0 lead, but New York rallied for three runs in the ninth before falling short.
		While the Cleveland Press stopped short of accusing Mays of intentionally hitting Chapman, the newspaper did call for his ouster on the grounds that he was too wild: “Carl Mays has demonstrated that he does not possess the proper control to continue as a pitcher in the American League.
		Cleveland newspapers were full of speculation about whether the team would fold after the tragedy or gain renewed strength from it.
	www.grayco.com /cleveland/sports-legends/sample.html (5444 words)

	Nap Lajoie \| The BASEBALL Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The right-handed hitter won batting titles in 1903 (.344) and 1904 (.376) and was named Cleveland's player-manager in 1905; the team was renamed the Naps in his honor.
		Nap won a fourth, albeit tainted batting championship when he racked up seven bunt singles on the last day of the 1910 season, all because of the opposing manager's hatred for Ty Cobb, who was four points ahead.
		Seven decades later the controversy erupted anew as it was discovered that Cobb had been the beneficiary of a double entry of a game in which he had gone 2-for-3; Larry had the higher batting average in 1910, after all.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/lajoienap (902 words)

	Pictures of Shoeless Joe (The Cleveland Years)
		1912 Cleveland Naps This photo from 1912 shows the Cleveland team standing in front of the bleachers at League Park in Cleveland......Joe is seventh man from the left.
		Joe Jackson postcard from 1913 This postcard shows Joe Jackson on the from and on the reverse is actually an advertisement for an exhibition game between the Cleveland Naps and the Pittsburgh Pirates to be held May 5th, 1913.
		Joe and Cleveland teammates during Spring Training This photo is also from a Jackson family member and is not in the best of shape (see the retouched smaller version here).
	www.blackbetsy.com /joepics2.htm (2637 words)

	Cy Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Young began his major league career in 1890 with the Cleveland Spiders and achieved stardom rapidly.
		He was one of the few star hurlers to maintain his level of success after the pitching mound was moved back to its present 60 feet 6 inches in 1893.
		He retired after the 1911 season, following 2 seasons with the Cleveland Naps and a year split between the Naps and the Boston Rustlers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denton_True_Young (729 words)

	Cleveland Indians (1901-Present)
		The Cleveland Naps were named after their most prominent player, Nap Lajoie.
		Cleveland had teams in the National Association, early National League, and American Association before the Cleveland Spiders joined the NL in 1889.
		Cleveland went on to win the game 8-1., and would go on to win Games 6 and 7 with Shutouts to win their first ever World Championship.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /al/clevind/indians.html (6681 words)

	Nap Lajoie -- One of baseball's most dominant infielders
		The new league paid more and, with promises not to have some of the oppressive leadership the NL had shown, the upstart franchises were able to attract NL stars.
		Nap Lajoie was one of the players to seize the opportunity and, in 1901, he took the field with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics.
		Lajoie in the AL and Honus Wagner in the NL were considered to be the most dominate infielders of the time in both defense and offense.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/l/lajoie_nap.html (923 words)

	Cy Young -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		He was one of the few star hurlers to maintain his level of success after the pitching mound was moved back to its present 60 feet 6 inches in (additional info and facts about 1893) 1893.
		The Cleveland and St Louis ownership had essentially swapped teams by trading all the players and neither Cy nor his wife were comfortable in St Louis.
		He retired after the 1911 season, following 2 seasons with the (additional info and facts about Cleveland Naps) Cleveland Naps and a year split between the Naps and the (additional info and facts about Boston Rustlers) Boston Rustlers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cy/cy_young.htm (744 words)

	Cleveland Indians
		Sockalexis had played three seasons for Cleveland in the National League, and his death at the age of 42 in 1913 may have attributed to the sentiment for this name.
		The worst thing about this deal from the Cleveland point of view is the fact that they dealt Jackson to the White Sox in the middle of the 1915 season because (A) they thought he was just another hard-hitting outfielder, (B) he was in a slump, and (C) he was expensive.
		Toward the end of the season, as Cleveland battled the Tigers and Yankees for the pennant, the anti-Vitt faction essentially mutinied.
	www.thebaseballpage.com /present/fp/al/cle.htm (1747 words)

	Cleveland Indians : History : Indians Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Nap Lojoie is the reason that Cleveland is called the Naps, showing what honor and respect his team and city had for him.
		Cleveland took on the name "Indians" in 1915, reviving a nickname of its old NL club upon the arrival of this Native American in 1897.
		Speaker was a shoe in for the Hall of Fame and was elected in 1937.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cle/history/timeline1.jsp (423 words)

	Joe Jackson Tidbits
		Joe is in the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame and was elected there on the initial ballot as a write in candidate.
		Joe's name did not appear on the charter ballot, however the fans in Cleveland thought so much of Joe that they wrote him in on the ballot and he was elected as a charter member back in 1951, shortly before his death.
		The Cleveland fans even knew it by named and told ole Joe to "give'em Dixie, Joe give'em Dixie", to which the mighty Jackson usually replied with a Blue Darter through the infield.
	www.blackbetsy.com /joetidbt.htm (2269 words)

	1907 Cleveland Naps Roster by Baseball Almanac
		Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive team roster for the 1907 Cleveland Naps with biographical data for every player who appeared in a game during the 1907 season.
		This Cleveland Naps roster places each name in the category where the most number of games were played by each player during the 1907 season.
		The Cleveland Naps played their home games at League Park I where 382,046 fans witnessed their club finish the season with a.559 winning percentage.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /teamstats/roster.php?y=1907&t=CL9 (236 words)

	1906 Cleveland Naps Roster by Baseball Almanac
		Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive team roster for the 1906 Cleveland Naps with biographical data for every player who appeared in a game during the 1906 season.
		This Cleveland Naps roster places each name in the category where the most number of games were played by each player during the 1906 season.
		The Cleveland Naps played their home games at League Park I where 325,733 fans witnessed their club finish the season with a.582 winning percentage.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /teamstats/roster.php?y=1906&t=CL9 (236 words)

	Buy Cleveland Indians Tickets - Online Sports Ticket Broker
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		Contrary to popular belief, the Cleveland Naps did not use a racist term in their name, but the name of a player, Nap Lajoie, who was the first player ever to hit 3,000 times.
		Cleveland Indians were again in the division series in 2001, but lost.
	www.vividseats.com /mlb/cleveland-indians-tickets.html (843 words)

	July 24, 1911: Baseball's First All-Star Game
		When the specially assembled team of players took the field on July 24, 1911 against the Cleveland Naps (now called the Indians), it was a sight that was unfamiliar to baseball fans.
		After the funeral the Cleveland team determined to hold a day to honor the pitcher and raise money for the family, but the management soon became bogged down in on-the-field problems and the idea was put on the back burner.
		Their fielding brilliance (was) accomplished without the aid of signals or strategy." Indeed, the Cleveland team that finished a strong third in the league that year was no match for this group of baseball's greatest superstars.
	www.wcnet.org /~dlfleitz/game.htm (1424 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cy Young (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He played with the Canton (Ohio) club of the Tri-State League before he pitched (1890–98) for the Cleveland Spiders in the National League.
		He later pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (1899–1900) of the National League, the Boston Red Sox and its predecessor teams the Somersets and the Puritans (1901–8) of the American League, the Cleveland Naps (1909–11; now the Indians) of the American League, and the Boston Pilgrims (1911; later the Braves) of the National League.
		In 22 years of major league baseball he pitched in 906 games.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Y/Young-Cy.html (300 words)

	Al Lopez Turns 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The sweep was surprising because of Cleveland's 111-43 regular season record.
		Giants centerfielder and 1954 National League MVP Willie Mays sprinted back, made his famous over-the-shoulder catch on Wertz's drive and fired the ball toward the infield to hold the two runners on base from scoring.
		Lopez left Cleveland after the 1955 season because he needed a change of scenery.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /news/2005/050820.htm (1064 words)

	Elmer Flick \| BaseballLibrary.com
		After compiling a.344 lifetime average in the NL (1898-1901), Flick jumped to the Philadelphia Athletics, following Nap Lajoie, who'd gone a year earlier.
		Nap is sidelined and suspended without pay for five weeks.
		March 7, 1908: Near Lexington, Kentucky, the train carrying the Cleveland Naps is struck by two bricks shattering windows.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/F/Flick_Elmer.stm (580 words)

	JimServo League-1903 - OOTP Developments Forums
		The Naps nearly blew their chance at the pennant by losing their last three games to second place Philadelphia, forcing a playoff.
		Nap Lajoie hit a home run in the top of the 6th to cut the lead to 2, and brought it to a one run deficit on a wild pitch in the 8th.
		Naps 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 8 1
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?t=3676 (1512 words)

	All-time Cleveland Naps team - Baseball Fever
		Anyway, you can choose who were the best players in a Nap uni, to you, from 1905-1914, before becoming the Indians in 1915.
		I know Chapman didn't come up until 1912 and was nowhere near his prime until after 1914 but his average Naps stats were better than Turners's average stats with the Naps (he was very inconsistent from year to year).
		In choosing pitchers I went with consistentcy during a pitcher's career with the Naps rather than volatility.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=25992 (272 words)

	Cleveland NAPS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Branch 46 September meeting was suspended by the executive board to have an open forum with specially invited guest Larry Jones, Senior Plant Manager and Spencer Hsu, Postmaster of Cleveland.
		August 16, 2004 through August 20, 2004 marked the week of the NAPS 59th National Convention in Kansas City where over 1300 members and family and guests registered for this convention.
		Also, some new resolution was adopted by the convention body that some members are calling a historical change for NAPS.
	clevelandnaps.com (283 words)

	"the People's Paths!" NAIIP News Path! - Florida AIM To Protest Cleveland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		That the Cleveland baseball franchise has, since 1969, ignored the demand of American Indian organizations, Nations, and peoples that the team halt the use of American Indian peoples as their sports mascots shows the depths of depravity and racism that are ingrained within the owners, administrators and fans of the Cleveland MLB franchise.
		The lies told by the Cleveland MLB front office claim the team was named for Penobscot Nation athletic hero Sockalexis.
		No Cleveland Catholics whose mascot Pope and Nun do the lambada every time they score throwing communion wafers on the field in front of frenzied fans doing their rendition of the crucifix chop.
	www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net /News2000/0400/AIMFL000408protest.htm (515 words)

	1906 AL MVP AWARD
		The Naps led the AL in both runs scored and in team ERA- yet finished in third place, five games behind the champion Chicago White Sox.
		DB Nap Lajoie was Cleveland's best player, and the biggest star in the AL.
		The team named itself the Cleveland Naps, and kept the name until he was traded in 1914.
	webhome.idirect.com /~brettsmith/History/400Pages/al1906.htm (318 words)

	Nap Lajoie
		The popular player-manager was so well-loved that when he went to the Cleveland Bronchos in 1903, they changed their name to the Cleveland Naps in his honor.
		He also led the league in on-base average twice, and according to Total Baseball saved more runs with his glove than any player at his position ever, including Bill Mazeroski.
		The Phillies had obtained an injunction forbidding Lajoie from playing in Pennsylvania; as a defense against unpredictable court proceedings, AL president Ban Johnson transferred Lajoie's contract to Cleveland, where his arrival instantly invigorated a moribund franchise.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Lajoie.html (681 words)

	1904 AL MVP AWARD
		But the Cleveland Naps had many of the best players in the league (including their namesake, star Nap Lajoie), leading the AL in runs scored.
		It was a very disappointing year for Cleveland, a sign of things to come for the next century.
		DB Once again, Nap Lajoie was clearly the best player in the league.
	webhome.idirect.com /~brettsmith/History/400Pages/al1904.htm (460 words)

	All-time Cleveland Indians team - Baseball Fever
		The Cleveland Naps are now known as the Cleveland Indians, it is the same franchise.
		The Cleveland (also known as the Bluebirds, the Blues, the Broncos) team has been around since 1901, and any all-time team MUST include 1901-1914 and through today.
		The Cleveland Spiders (known before as teh Cleveland Forest Citys that played Cincinatti in the first ever professional baseball game) was a National LEague team, but made way for the current franchise in the new Americal League (1901).
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=26453 (438 words)

	Cy Young \| BaseballLibrary.com
		With players like Nap Lajoie, Elmer Flick, and Jesse Burkett behind him, and Chief Zimmer, who had been his barehanded batterymate when he broke in back in 1890, old Cy Young fanned a pair in his two innings as his team of veterans won the game.
		Cleveland 3B Bill Bradley makes seven putouts, tying his own team mark set in 1901.
		July 19, 1909: Cleveland SS Neal Ball executes the 20th century's first unassisted triple play in the top of the 2nd against the Red Sox.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/Y/Young_Cy.stm (5132 words)

	My Scrapbook
		Overlook was the premier street in Cleveland Heights, one of the region's first fully-planned garden suburbs.
		The headquarters of the Cleveland Grays also hosted performances of the Cleveland Orchestra and demonstrations of Thomas Edison's phonograph.
		Gene H. Barnett performs brain surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in 1992.
	worlddmc.ohiolink.edu /OMP/YourScrapbook?user=June2003 (512 words)

	Toledo's Attic - Joss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Since he did not have a binding contract with the team, the Cleveland Club of the new American League paid the Mud Hens $500 for him.
		The first game he pitched for Cleveland was on April 26, 1902 when he defeated the St. Louis Browns.(Ibid).
		Playing for the Cleveland Naps (now called the Indians) from 1902 to 1910 gave Joss the reputation as being a premier pitcher in the American League's first decade.
	www.attic.utoledo.edu /toledosattic/attic/att/wood/joss.html (731 words)

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