Cleveland Spiders ace Cy Young wins the home opener at the newly christened League Park, thumping Cincinnati 12-3 before 9,000 fans.
Cleveland wins its first ever championship by taking first place in the second half of the season.
Cleveland Spiders lead-off hitter and left-fielder Jesse Burkett a.k.a. “The Crab” hits for a scorching .423.
Louis Francis “Chief” Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, joins the Cleveland Spiders and smacks home runs in his first two at-bats, finishing the season with a .338 average
The Cleveland Bronchos change their name to the “Naps’’ in honor of Napoléon “Nap” Lajoie.
Bedford, Ohio native Elmer Flick won a batting title with the Cleveland Naps, hitting .308, the lowest average awarded a batting title recipient until Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox hit .301 in 1968, the year of the pitcher.
Detroit Tigers manager Hughie Jennings offered Ty Cobb to the Cleveland Naps in exchange for outfielder Elmer Flick. Cleveland owner Charles Somers considered the troublesome Cobb to be too great of a risk, and declined the trade offer.
Cleveland’s own Addie Joss tossed a 74-pitch perfect game on October 2, over future Hall of Fame pitcher Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox.
League Park hosted the first "all-star game"–a benefit game for the family of Cleveland pitcher Addie Joss, who had died of meningitis a few months earlier.
Based on the results from a newspaper contest, the new name for the Cleveland club (with Nap Lajoie no longer with the team) was “Indians,” a name selected (at least partly) in recognition of the legendary Louis Francis Sockalexis, the first Native American to play professional baseball.
Stan Coveleski on May 24th pitched a 19-inning complete game, leading the Tribe to a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Tris Speaker became the Cleveland Indians player/manager on July 19 after manager Leo Fohl resigned over a dispute between himself and Speaker (his assistant) over which pitcher would face Babe Ruth with the bases loaded at League Park. Fohl settled on Fred (Fritz) Coumbe and the Bambino slammed his slow curve over the right-field wall for a majestic grand slam.
The Cleveland Indians, their 20th season in club history, win their first World Series title in the history of the franchise, beating the Brooklyn Robins (Dodgers) five games to two.
The Cleveland Indians rolled out new uniforms, replacing the letter “ C” on their chest with the words: “Worlds Champions” in recognition of winning the 1920 World Series.
Outfielder Jack Graney retired after the 1922 season, having played his entire career with the Cleveland Indians; and nine years later became the radio voice of the Cleveland Indians at WHK.
Pitcher Stan Coveleski was traded to the Washington Senators on December 12 for pitcher Byron Speece and outfielder Carr Smith.
The Cleveland Indians finished the season in second place, three games behind the New York Yankees. The team was stunned to learn player/manager Tris Speaker was resigning as manager when he announced his retirement after being accused by former Detroit Tigers pitcher Dutch Leonard that he and Ty Cobb conspired to fix a game played between the Tigers and Indians in 1919.
On August 11, Babe Ruth, the “Sultan of Swat’’ belted his 500th home run over the 290 feet and 40 foot high right field fence at League Park. The historic solo shot was hit off of Indians’ pitcher Willis Hudlin in the second frame of a game between Cleveland and the New York Yankees.
Five Cleveland Indians regulars batted over .300, including second baseman Johnny Hodapp (.354), sixth in the American League. Poor defense, however, left them in fourth place when the season ended, 21 games behind the league leading Philadelphia Athletics.
On June 7, Cleveland Indians general manager Billy Evans fired manager Roger Peckinpaugh and replaced him with Walter Johnson, “The Big Train.’’
The Cleveland Indians sign Bob Feller, a 16-year-old with a blazing fastball, from Van Meter, Iowa, for one dollar and an autographed baseball.
Bob Feller mows down 15 St Louis Browns hitters with a blistering fastball in his first major league start. “Rapid Robert’’, in fact, struck out the first eight batters he faced in his League Park debut.
Cleveland Indians pitcher Johnny Allen started the season with 15 consecutive wins, a league record at the time.
Cleveland Indians center fielder Earl Averill was honored on “Earl Averill Day’’ in Cleveland where he was showered with a number of gifts, including a new Cadillac, the same year his batting average rebounded to .330.
On July 16, the hot hitting Joe DiMaggio stretched his consecutive hitting streak to 56 games, going 3-for-4 in front of 15,000 fans at League Park. His streak would end the following night at Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
Shortstop Lou Boudreau begins his first season as player/manager of the Cleveland Indians, becoming the youngest manager in baseball at the tender age of 24.
Because World War II drained teams of talent, Cleveland Indians manager Lou Boudreau was forced to use Jim Bagby, one of his best pitchers, as the team’s backup second baseman.
League Park played host to the Negro League World Series, in which the Cleveland Buckeyes swept the Homestead Grays ; the same year the Cleveland Rams played their last game at League Park by defeating the Boston Yanks, 20-7.
On June 22, Bill Veeck became principal owner of the Cleveland Indians and wanted his new team to play the all games at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. As a result, the Indians final game at League Park was September 21, 1946 in front of a small gathering, 2,772, in a 5-3 win over the Detroit Tigers.
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