A team of drastic ups and downs, the Cleveland Indians have played some of the very best and very worst baseball. The 1954 Indians utterly dominated the American League, racking up a record amount of wins. The Indians of the late 1990s, with perrenial sellouts of Jacobs Field, sported some of the most dangerous lineups in baseball history, and played in the 1997 World Series. However, in other parts of the team's history, it has been a laughing stock, so much so that in the 1980s their ineptitude inspired the film Major League, one of the great baseball movies of all-time.
Tim Belcher pitched for seven teams in 14 Major League seasons. (Dan Mendlik/Cleveland Indians) Manny Acta's coaching staff began taking shape with the addition of Tim Belcher as pitching coach. Belcher has worked with the Tribe as a special assistant since 2002.
Publ.Date : Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:18:08 GMTAs the offseason begins, Indians officials are confronted with a rotation more unsettled and out of focus than at any time since the opening of Progressive Field in 1994. Indians officials have lots of names of potential starting pitchers, but also lots of question marks and almost no sure-things.
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The team was known as the Naps between 1903 and 1914, due to star player Napoleon Lajoie, who was the best deadball era hitter not named Ty Cobb.
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