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MLB baseball Betting Online: The Cleveland Indians joined Major League Baseball in 1901 as one of the eight original members of the American League.

The franchise was established in 1894 and originally called the Cleveland Bluebirds. After the 1914 season, the team changed its name to the Indians. The logo, depicting an Indian in a headdress, is called Chief Wahoo. A common nickname for the Indians is the Tribe.

Cleveland plays home games at Progressive Field which was formerly called Jacobs Field. Pro Baseball Hall of Fame members inducted as a member of the Indians include Nap Lajoie, Bob Feller and Bob Lemon.

The Indians won World Series titles in 1920 and 1948. The championship drought of 62 years is currently the second-longest in baseball behind the Chicago Cubs.

The 1920 title came with some help. The Black Sox scandal had just come to light and the suspension of players in Chicago left that team with little talent. Cleveland finished two games ahead of the Sox in the standings to win the pennant. Tris Speaker hit .388 that season and pitcher Jim Bagby won 30 games.

The Indians came back from a 2-1 series deficit to win four in a row against the Brooklyn Robins in the World Series to capture their first title. Game 5 was a historic one in the annals of baseball. Elmer Smith hit the first World Series grand slam, Bagby hit the first World Series home run by a pitcher and Bill Wambsganss executed the only triple play in World Series history.

Like the Red Sox curse of Babe Ruth, the Cleveland fan base points to a trade that placed them in a downward spiral from 1960 to 1993. During this time period, the Indians finished in third place just once, fourth place six times and lower than that the rest of the years.

General Manager Frank Lane is to blame. Prior to the 1960 season, he traded Rocky Colavito to the Tigers for Harvey Kuenn. Colavito was the defending home run champion and Kuenn had won the batting title in 1959. But Kuenn would only play one season in Cleveland while Colavito went on to hit more than 30 home runs in three of the next four seasons for Detroit.

The Tribe came close to ending their championship futility in 1997. The won their third straight Central crown behind an 86-75 record and then proceeded to take out the Yankees and Orioles in the AL postseason.

Cleveland stood two outs away from winning the Series in Game 7 until closer Jose Mesa blew the 2-1 lead. Edgar Rentería drove home the winning run for the Florida Marlins, giving the recently expanded team its first championship.

The Indians would record another "first" in World Series history but this time it held a dubious distinction. They became the first team to lose the World Series after going into the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 with a lead.

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