BASE-BALL

[NWI_Irish96]

It happened again: The Dodgers and Lakers winning championships in the same year (they also did it in 1988). If the Rays had come back and won, wouldn't that have been the first time that a city/metropolitan area had World Series and Stanley Cup champions in the same year?

1928: New York Rangers and Yankees
1933: New York Rangers and Giants

[Stephane Dumas]

It happened again: The Dodgers and Lakers winning championships in the same year (they also did it in 1988). If the Rays had come back and won, wouldn't that have been the first time that a city/metropolitan area had World Series and Stanley Cup champions in the same year?

1928: New York Rangers and Yankees
1933: New York Rangers and Giants

If only there wasn't a strike in 1994, who knows if the NY Rangers and Yankees would had been champions in the same year?

And in football, the Red Wings and the Lions had won the Stanley Cup and the NFL championship (pre-Super Bowl era) in the same year in 1952.

[Alps]

It happened again: The Dodgers and Lakers winning championships in the same year (they also did it in 1988). If the Rays had come back and won, wouldn't that have been the first time that a city/metropolitan area had World Series and Stanley Cup champions in the same year?

1928: New York Rangers and Yankees
1933: New York Rangers and Giants

If only there wasn't a strike in 1994, who knows if the NY Rangers and Yankees would had been champions in the same year?

And in football, the Red Wings and the Lions had won the Stanley Cup and the NFL championship (pre-Super Bowl era) in the same year in 1952.

Les Expos would have won in the alternate 1994 where they stay in Montréal.

[kevinb1994]

I am pleased to announce that the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are now the AAA affiliate of the Miami Marlins (and will play as part of the AAA East).

[1995hoo]

Cleveland Indians are going to change their name.

No word on whether they're going to become the Cleveland Redskins instead.

[Stephane Dumas]

Cleveland Indians are going to change their name.

No word on whether they're going to become the Cleveland Redskins instead.

How about Red Jays, as an opposition to the Toronto Blue Jays just like the Red Sox and the White Sox?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T02FE0GDn0

[ilpt4u]

Cleveland Indians are going to change their name.

No word on whether they're going to become the Cleveland Redskins instead.

Cleveland River Flames

[1995hoo]

Saw this riff on Chief Wahoo on another forum:

[hotdogPi]

Ideas for what they could be if they move into the suburbs:
Parma Hams
Euclid Mathematicians
Avon Cosmetics

[kurumi]

As a Spinal Tap fan, I'm favoring a name change to "Hello Cleveland"

[jeffandnicole]

The Cleveland Rocks 



https://youtu.be/SJ3plaSowWc

[mgk920]

When Cleveland, OH was without an NFL team, Tom Batiuk had an ongoing background setting of the characters in his comic strip Funky Winkerbean (set in suburban NE Ohio) rooting for a fictional NFL team called the 'Cleveland Rockers' and using a stylized image of the R&R HoF as their helmet logo.

Maybe that could be an inspiration.

Mike

[CNGL-Leudimin]

I would rename them the Cleveland Cubs, since they have now the longest championship drought . Ironically the Cubs ended theirs against Cleveland.

[Takumi]

I'll be surprised if they don't change it to the Spiders. Or maybe Cleveland Baseball Team.

[oscar]

I'll be surprised if they don't change it to the Spiders. Or maybe Cleveland Baseball Team.

AIUI, the plan is to keep the Indians name for the 2021 season. That means more time to select a less generic, permanent new name, than the Redskins had for their hasty interim name change.

[ET21]

Spiders would be a cool name, plus recognizes the original team

[Stephane Dumas]

Spiders would be a cool name, plus recognizes the original team

While we're at it, how about Sockalexis? As a tribute to Louis Sockalexis, a player of the Spiders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sockalexis

They could also use names from others sports like the Barons or using other birds or feline names like Lynx, Falcons, etc...

[Scott5114]

When Cleveland, OH was without an NFL team, Tom Batiuk had an ongoing background setting of the characters in his comic strip Funky Winkerbean ... Maybe that could be an inspiration.

If so, that would mark the first time anyone was inspired, rather than depressed, by Funky Winkerbean.

[triplemultiplex]

the plan is to keep the Indians name for the 2021 season. That means more time to select a less generic, permanent new name, than the Redskins had for their hasty interim name change.

They don't have a sexual harassment scandal they are trying to distract attention from?  That's why the 'skins rushed the ignominious change, after all.

[Henry]

I can see them called the Spiders, but unfortunately, that name has lots of baggage attached to it, thanks to that notoriously historic 1899 season in which they lost 134 games (out of 154). Of course that spelled the end of NL baseball in Cleveland, but their AL successors have done a lot better, with five pennants and two World Series championships (even though they haven't won since 1948).

[triplemultiplex]

Spiders ain't gonna work for the simple reason that most people hate spiders.

Lean on the city's status as a port and call 'em the Cleveland Dockers.  They'll have a built-in corporate sponsor.  Free khakis night at the ball park!  It'll be great.

[jeffandnicole]

I saw this on someone's Facebook page who I believe is a member here, so apologies for stealing it.

It's a fairly good history of the Fleer Baseball card company, its rise and fall from fame, and some of its disputes with Topps.

https://hiddencityphila.org/2016/02/dubble-bubble-baseball-cards-philadelphias-fleer-legacy/

[Stephane Dumas]

Spiders ain't gonna work for the simple reason that most people hate spiders.

Lean on the city's status as a port and call 'em the Cleveland Dockers.  They'll have a built-in corporate sponsor.  Free khakis night at the ball park!  It'll be great.

Unless playing on some namegames like Spidey or if Marvel comics don't ask too much for name rights, the Spider-man.

[mgk920]

With MLB recognizing seven Negro Leagues that played from 1920 through 1948 as full 'Major Leagues' for all purposes, there will be some changes in the record book.  Some of these will be significant as there was some incredible talent that played in those circuits during those years.

A few examples:

- Willy Mays will now be credited with 661 instead of 660 career home runs.  He had 11 base hits, including one home run, during a stint with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948.

- Josh Gibson will now hold the record for highest single-season batting average (minimum 3.1 plate appearances/games played by his team in the entire season).  He hit .466 with the Homestead Grays of the Negro National League in 1943.  This is two years after Ted Williams hit .406 with the Boston Red Sox in 1941.  Gibson's record will supplant Hugh Duffy at #1, who hit .440 for the Boston Beaneaters (now Atlanta Braves) in 1894.  Gibson would have dominated all of Baseball as a hitter during his career had he been able to.

- Ted Williams and Babe Ruth will both likely drop out of the top ten in career batting averages.

Mike

[1995hoo]

^^^^^

The weird thing is that seemingly every stats site I view gives different numbers. From what I understand, that's always been a difficulty with Negro League statistics–they simply weren't maintained as religiously as MLB statistics were at the time and it's therefore hard to reconstruct them. Either way, there's no doubt that by all accounts Josh Gibson was an incredible hitter.