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The Cleveland Indians (Writing Sports)

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First revealed by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1949, Franklin “Whitey” Lewis’s The Cleveland Indians begins with the organization’s early years because the Cleveland Forest Citys, covers the 1920 World Series victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers, and concludes with the joy of the 1948 pennant race.

This early team history covers such Cleveland legends as Cy Young, from his days in Tuscarawas County and Canton and his time with the Cleveland Spiders; Bob Feller, his discovery and development; and Larry Doby, the second one African American to play within the major leagues and the primary to play within the American League. It also delivers such forgotten and lesser-known stories as professional baseball’s first-ever absolute best game, thrown by John Lee Richmond of Worcester against the Cleveland Forest Citys on June 12, 1880; the purchase of Napoleon Lajoie and the town’s vote to modify the team’s name to the Napoleons (Naps) in his honor; and Charles W. Somers and John F. Kilfoyl and the birth of the American League.


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