Cleveland Indians

The Tribe, better known as the Cleveland Indians, is Cleveland, Ohio’s major league baseball team. Cleveland Indians baseball has found its home in Cleveland since the early 1900s.

The Cleveland Indians logo features a grinning red Indian brave. Rumor has it that the team was named for Louis Sockalexis, a Native American, who played for the team in the late 1890s.

Cleveland Indians fans love to show their support, so there are plenty of items available with the Cleveland Indians logos emblazoned on them. Get Cleveland Indians wallpaper to decorate your bedroom, a Cleveland Indians screensaver to brighten up your computer, or Cleveland Indians downloads of your favorite moments of the game. You can even get an autographed baseball from Casey Whitten, one of the Cleveland Indians top draft picks.

For the Cleveland Indians, spring training in Florida starts off every season. You can get the Cleveland Indians 2007 schedule off of the Cleveland Indians homepage. While you are there, you can also take a look at the new players added to the Cleveland Indians roster or purchase Cleveland Indians tickets.

1948 was the last year that the Cleveland Indians won a World Series. With a stiff competition in the Cleveland Indians schedule, Satchel Paige was signed in as a pitcher. Some people thought that this was a publicity stunt, since at 42 Paige was the oldest rookie ever, as well as the first African American pitcher. However, Paige helped lead the team to victory, and they beat the Boston Braves four to two to take the World Series. This was the last time that they won the World Series, though the team did rather well until the late 1950s.

Between 1959 and 1993, the Cleveland Indians were at the bottom of the heap when it came to major league baseball. Several poor trades were done, the most infamous of which was the fan favorite, Rocky Colavito, and the team fell into a 30 year slump.

Times were rough then for the Cleveland Indians, with several more poorly invested trades and several changes of ownership. There was even talk of the Cleveland Indians leaving Cleveland due to poor game attendance.

1994 marked a return of the Cleveland Indians to some semblance of their former glory. A strike among the players cancelled the season, but from that point forward the team was doing markedly better. They even made it to the World Series in 1997, though lost to the Marlins in extra innings. Since then, fans have clung to the hope that the Indians will return to clinch a World Series championship.