Post Season Baseball

Rooting Interests

The Rockies are compelling. The Red Sox franchise steeped in mythology. But make no mistake, I'm pulling for Cleveland. I always root for the longest suffering.

Joyously, drought sufferers the Red Sox and White Sox have captured two of the last three championships. The Angels 2002 title nearly satisfied the criteria, except it came at the expense of the Giants (whose last championship was in 1954). It isn't that I dislike a dynasty, but I prefer happiness spread around. (The economists equivalent of wealth redistribution.) The Indians haven't claimed the top spot since 1948. Only the Cubs famine is longer (1908).

I rummaged through my post card collection and I found these two Cleveland scenes. The first is a linen card, probably early 1950's, of Municipal Stadium, the Indians home before Jacobs Field. The description on the rear reads, Cleveland's Municipal Stadium from the Lake Erie side. It is an iron and concrete structure seating 78,000 persons and costing $2,500,000.


The second postcard is older and likely commemorates an industrial league playoff between either the Omaha Panhandlers and the Cleveland White Auto or the Hanna Cleaners and Telling Strollers, played in 1914 or 1915 in front of 100,000 people at Brookside Park.
Brookside Park, became one of Cleveland's first municipal parks in the 1890's, is well known for summer sporting contests and serves as the home of the Cleveland Baseball Federation, the oldest amateur baseball organization in the country (1910).

Go Tribe!