BOOKS: In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig

In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of…

BOOKS: Robinson, Race, and Brooklyn

Barack Obama's election last fall to the presidency of the United…

A Response By Norman Macht

Editor's note: This article is in response to "The Gentlemen’s…
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, circa 1915 (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

Can You Read, Judge Landis?

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Black Ball:…

The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field

Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Black Ball:…

The Quest for Dick McBride

This article was originally published in SABR's Nineteenth Century…

Bob Feller, Ace Negotiator

On a warm July day in 1935, Cy Slapnicka, Cleveland Indians superscout,…

Jesse Burkett: Cleveland’s Forgotten Legend

The .400 club is a select company to which no new member has…

Keeping the Federals at Bay: Cleveland in the American Association, 1914-1915

Over the first half of the twentieth century, the American Association…

‘The Kid from Cleveland’: A Celebration of the Postwar Cleveland Indians

As baseball movies go, The Kid from Cleveland is strictly second…

It Was ‘Smoky’ in Cleveland: Indians win 19-inning game in 1918

The Ruth era was still a year or two away in 1918. Two home runs…

Roger Maris and the Cleveland Indians

Before the back-to-back MVP awards in 1960 and 1961 and the glaring…

Cleveland Tate Stars

The city of Cleveland had a number of entrants in the Negro Leagues…

The Crybabies of 1940

In the early spring of 1940, under a warm Florida sun, Cleveland…

James C. Dunn and the Cleveland Indians

James C. Dunn's 1916 purchase of the Cleveland Indians brought…

Cleveland Classic: Loss of Mel Harder is Great One for Tribe

OCTOBER 21, 2002 — Mel Harder's ashes will be scattered across…

Alva Bradley, Baseball’s Last Purist

In 1927, at the height of the booming 1920s, Cleveland was a…

Cleveland Classic: Mr. Robert, Master Herbie

MAY 2, 1955 — Bob Feller walked into the clubhouse. He had…

Whatever Happened to Tito Francona?

TITO FRANCONA Outfielder, First Baseman, 1959-64 Best…

Whatever Happened to Gary Bell?

GARY BELL Pitcher, 1958-67 Best season: 1959, 44 games,…

Cleveland Classic: Kralick Versus Bell

When veteran Plain Dealer baseball writer Russ Schneider made…

Whatever Happened to Mudcat Grant?

JAMES "MUDCAT" GRANT Pitcher, 1958-64 Best season: 1961,…

Whatever Happened to Gomer Hodge?

HAROLD "GOMER" HODGE Second Base, Third Base, First Base,…

‘I Didn’t Think Baseball Players Were Real People’: An Interview with Richie Scheinblum

This interview was conducted as part of the oral-history project…
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