A team of drastic ups and downs, the Cleveland Indians have played some of the very best and very worst baseball. The 1954 Indians utterly dominated the American League, racking up a record amount of wins. The Indians of the late 1990s, with perrenial sellouts of Jacobs Field, sported some of the most dangerous lineups in baseball history, and played in the 1997 World Series. However, in other parts of the team's history, it has been a laughing stock, so much so that in the 1980s their ineptitude inspired the film Major League, one of the great baseball movies of all-time.
The Cleveland Indians continue their road trip tonight with a visit to Baltimore's Camden Yards, where the Tribe will attempt to hang another loss on the badly-slumping Orioles in the opener of this four-game series. Baltimore has lost eight straight games and 13 of its last 14 contests, and the team's woes continued with a 5-1 home setback to Oakland on Saturday. Jack Cust slugged a pair of ...
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:37:42 GMTThe Cleveland Indians continue their road trip tonight with a visit to Baltimore's Camden Yards, where the Tribe will attempt to hang another loss on the badly-slumping Orioles in the opener of this four-game series.
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:41:10 GMTCliff Lee goes for win No. 21 this afternoon when the Cleveland Indians play the rubber match of their three-game series with the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:56:40 GMTUPDATED: 04 :51 a.m. EDT, September 06, 2008 Cleveland Indians shortstop Jhonny Peralta back hands a ground ball deep in the hole at shortstop and threw out Chicago White Sox's Juan Uribe for the first out of the 3rd inning at Progressive Field on Sept. 3, 2008.
Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:52:18 GMTUPDATED: 04 :40 a.m. EDT, September 06, 2008 Cleveland Indians shortstop Jhonny Peralta back hands a ground ball deep in the hole at shortstop and threw out Chicago White Sox's Juan Uribe for the first out of the 3rd inning at Progressive Field on Sept. 3, 2008.
Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:46:39 GMT
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The team was known as the Naps between 1903 and 1914, due to star player Napoleon Lajoie, who was the best deadball era hitter not named Ty Cobb.
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