The Cleveland Indians  

From the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, the Cleveland Indians fielded team after team that just couldn't win. Those forty long years, before the opening of Jacobs Field and the "era of champions," are remembered by many as the "bad old days."Yet each of those lousy teams had its share of pretty good guys, likeable and colorful young men who earne[...]

Here in a new updated edition of his bestseller, Jack Torry tells the compelling story about the relationship between a city, its financial leaders, and its baseball team.

The Cleveland Indians came into existence along with the American League in 1901, and their rich and fascinating history has been well documented in photographs. Many prints from the Cleveland Press archive, dating from 1920 until the newspaperís closure in 1982, are reproduced in this book, along with a brief history of the teamís successes and [...]

This book features a countdown of the Cleveland Indians' greatest games. It's far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders' views of their professional sports teams. While the Browns, Indians, and Cavaliers have certainly caused more than their fair share of frustration and heartbreak over the past century[...]

Focuses on key players and events in the history of the Cleveland Indians, who have had a reputation for losing and have had more team names than World Series Championships.

This definitive chronicle of one of major league baseball's most beloved — and beleaguered — teams covers every season from 1901 to 2007. Dividing its history by decades, years, and even days, Indians Journal features hitting and pitching highlights, team and individual player stats, interesting and unusual facts, historical and contemporary ph[...]

The Cleveland Indians lifeline to their success will always be their farm system, and that lifeline has never been as strong as it is today. This book is a comprehensive listing of the Indians best prospects that brings to light the minor league players of today who may be the next stars of tomorrow for your Cleveland Indians. In this book you [...]

First published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1949, Franklin "Whitey" Lewis's "The Cleveland Indians" begins with the organization's early years as the Cleveland Forest Citys, covers the 1920 World Series victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers, and concludes with the excitement of the 1948 pennant race. This early team history covers such Cleveland legends [...]