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Name Years Ernest Barnard: 1903–1927 Bob McRoy: 1916–1917 Billy Evans: 1927–1935 C.C. Slapnicka: 1935–1941 Roger Peckinpaugh: 1941–1946 Bill Veeck
Cleveland becomes the fifth-largest city in the nation. The Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment become law. Cleveland Indians win the World Series. Cleveland Museum of Natural History established. Population: 796,841. [9] 1921 Cleveland Clinic and Playhouse Square established. KeyBank State Theatre built. Mimi Ohio Theatre opened. Hanna ...
Cleveland Tigers (NFL) APFA (1920), originally named as the Tigers in 1916 [1] in the Ohio League; renamed Indians in 1921; Cleveland Indians (NFL 1931), league-sponsored team that only played on the road; Cleveland Bulldogs NFL (1924–1925) (1927), named as the Cleveland Indians in 1923; Cleveland Panthers AFL (1926)
When the Cleveland Indians played in the 1997 World Series, protesters demonstrated against the team's use of the Chief Wahoo mascot. When American Indian activist Vernon Bellecourt burned an effigy of Chief Wahoo, police arrested him and ordered others to leave. Later, the police arrested two other protesters who had moved to another part of ...
Progressive Field is a baseball stadium in the downtown area of Cleveland, Ohio, United States.It is the ballpark of the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball and, together with Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, is part of the Gateway Sports and Entertainment Complex. [9]
The 1920 season featured an extremely rare tripleheader—the third in National League and major-league history, having previously occurred only in 1890 and 1896—when the Pittsburgh Pirates hosted the Cincinnati Reds on October 2 for three games, the day before the final day of the regular season. The Reds won the first two games while the ...
The 1931 Indians would be followed in the city by the Cleveland Rams, who joined the NFL in 1937 after one season in the American Football League and played in Cleveland through the 1945 season. The Rams were followed by the Cleveland Browns in 1946, who played their first four seasons in the All-America Football Conference before joining the ...
Chief Wahoo was a logo used by the Cleveland Indians (now the Cleveland Guardians), a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1951 to 2018. As part of the larger Native American mascot controversy , the logo drew criticism from Native Americans, social scientists, and religious and educational groups, but was ...