July 5, 1987: Don’t ‘Believe It’: When Sports Illustrated missed on the Cleveland Indians
“They might be right,” Dan Evans thought to himself when he saw the cover of the April 6, 1987, issue of Sports Illustrated, with its subhead that proclaimed, “Believe It! Cleveland Is the Best Team in the American League.”1 After all, the then 27-year-old Evans knew the team he served as director of baseball operations, […]