1890s outfielder Louis Sockalexis of the Penobscot tribe inspired this name of Cleveland's baseball team
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The Cleveland Indians, Louis Sockalexis, and The Name ...  Mar 18, 2014 ... Louis Francis Sockalexis was born on the Penobscot Indian ... powerful than Ruth and was a better outfielder than Tris Speaker. .... Cleveland baseball had a long and mostly losing battle with team nicknames before 1915.
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Louis Sockalexis - Wikipedia  Louis Francis Sockalexis (October 24, 1871  December 24, 1913), nicknamed The Deerfoot of the Diamond, was an American baseball player. Sockalexis played professional baseball in the National League for three seasons, spending his entire career (1897-1899) as an outfielder for the Cleveland ... A Native American from the Penobscot tribe, Sockalexis is often identified as...
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Louis Sockalexis - Expand Your Mind - Revolvy  A Native American from the Penobscot tribe, Sockalexis is often identified as the ... spending his entire career (1897-1899) as an outfielder for the Cleveland Spiders. ... In 1897, the Notre Dame baseball team played an exhibition game against .... The name "Indians" originated from a request by club owner Charles Somers...
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Louis Sockalexis | Society for American Baseball Research  Louis Sockalexis, a member of the Penobscot Indian tribe of Maine, played in only 94 ... "Indians" as applied to the present American League team in Cleveland. ... patrolling the outfield for a baseball nine sponsored by the Poland Spring Hotel. .... had brought to Cleveland in 1897, dubbed his team the Indians, a name that...
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The Rise and Fall of Louis Sockalexis - SABR  A mixture of fact arid fiction surrounds the legendary Penobscot's ... EVERY YEAR THE Cleveland Indians Media Guide contains a short item ... "Sock" tore up the summer leagues around Maine in the early 1890s, and his ... then captain of the baseball team at Holy Cross, and he recruited Sockalexis for the college's nine.
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Entire Unit - Anti-Defamation League  All [they] did by coming up into our territory is open old wounds, ... American Indians from others born in the Americas and therefore Native ....  Students will consider appropriate ways to commemorate the history of U.S. expansion. ..... Nez Perce, a term meaning pierced noses, was the name given to the people of this...
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Earl Weaver  CBS Baltimore  Let's make that 5 for 7 because in the first inning of his second game as an Oriole he .... Hall of Fame manager John McGraw was getting tossed out of games in ... Roenick-Steintheir nickname back in the daycombined to hit 171 homers and drive ... The two join Emil Bossard (Indians), George Toma (Royals), Joe Mooney...
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The New York Times: This Day In Sports  Show All Days, Site Search: ... For the first time since 1901, when the Red Sox set up American League business at the Hub, Boston became a one-team city. ... The Washington Senators moved to Bloomington, Minn., as the Minnesota Twins in 1961 and were replaced in Washington by an expansion franchise.
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Culture & History | Passamaquoddy Tribe @ Indian Township  The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians are the descendants of Native American peoples who inhabited Maine and western New Brunswick since well...
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Report: Hornets to change name to New Orleans Pelicans in 2013 ...  Dec 4, 2012 ... The Pelicans were an old New Orleans baseball team. ... something cooler, then if Vancouver gets the nba back, they should reclaim the name:...
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History of the Minnesota Twins - Wikipedia  The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, ... In 1905 the team changed its official name to the Washington Nationals. ... This was one month before the Senators moved to Minnesota. ... The Twins of manager Sam Mele won 102 games and the American League Pennant in...
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History of baseball team nicknames - Wikipedia  This is a summary of the evolution of nicknames of the current Major League Baseball teams, ..... For years many sources have called the early Boston AL teams "Pilgrims" or "Puritans" or ..... teams that operated as an apartheid culture until major league baseball was integrated in 1947 by one-time Monarch Jackie Robinson.
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History of the American League - Wikipedia  The History of the American League, officially known as the American League of Professional ... Johnson hoped to clean up the sport of baseball by purchasing the league, ... The Chicago franchise, together with seven additional former Western ... 1901 season and new teams added in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.
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Free Flashcards about NATIVE AMERICANS - StudyStack  THIS TRIBE'S NAME WAS FIRST ON A BAY, THEN A COLONY, THEN A STATE, MASSACHUSETTS .... COLONISTS CALLED IT THE ELK, THOUGH THE SHAWNEE HAD GIVEN IT THIS PERFECTLY GOOD NAME, WAPITI. NATIVE...
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When Pierre Laclede chose St - University of Missouri-St. Louis  When Pierre Laclede chose St. Louis as a site for Laclede=s Village, he had visions of the town becoming one of the great cities in America and the ... when Captain Louis St. Ange de Bellerive, the French Lieutenant Governor, ... The first tribe of Missouri Indians appeared in 1764 right after Auguste Chouteau named the...
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State Bird of Maryland | Baltimore Oriole - State Symbols USA  Maryland designated the Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) as the official state ... In 1894, Baltimore's major league baseball team was named after the bird (The...
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Native Americans: Penobscot Indian Tribe (Penobscot Nation ...  Language, culture, history and genealogy of the Penobscot Indians. Covers the ... Passamaquoddy and Penobscot canoe building and traditional life. Teachers on Mission ... Maine House Bans the Word 'Squaw' * Northeast ... Photo-essay on Penobscot and other Wabanaki textile arts from the Maine State Museum. Indian...
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Official Baseball Thread, posted by Serge_A_Storms - Rate Your ...  "In 1917, Fred Toney of the Cincinnati Reds and Hippo Vaughn of the Chicago Cubs pitched a hitless, scoreless tie after 9 inningsthe only ... I seem to remember that one of the pitchers went into the 10th inning and then lost the game. ... we need more better baseball names these days. coco crisp is cool...
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Sooners - Wikipedia  Sooners is the name given to settlers from the Southern United States who entered the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma before the official start of the Land Rush of 1889. President Grover Cleveland officially proclaimed the Unassigned Lands open to settlement on March 2, 1889 under the Indian ... In 1908, University of Oklahoma football team adopted the nickname...
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If the Tigers had nicknames from an earlier era - Detroit Athletic  Apr 25, 2012 ... In terms of nicknames, we're living in the most boring era in ... A few speedsters from other eras, including Chief Sockalexis and Clyde Milan, were called Deerfoot. ... In the past, many big players and sluggers, like Bill Skowron of the ... Could also be Scooter like famed Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto.
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Oklahoma Centennial Top 100 Greatest Oklahoman Baseball ...  Jul 8, 2007 ... Named after Hall of Fame catcher Mickey Cochrane. ... Born in Harrah and died in Oklahoma City. .... only major leaguer to be named for a president, emperor and a Choctaw Indian chief. ... outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, he helped them win pennants in 1939 and '40. .... Pitched parts of four ML seasons.