“He was a wild bird...He had more natural ability than any player I have ever seen, past or present.”-- longtime Cleveland shortstop Ed McKean, Cleveland Leader, January 4, 1914.
"Can anybody believe that the Cleveland Indians, a storied and cherished baseball franchise since taking the name in 1915, are changing their name to the Guardians? Such a disgrace, and I guarantee that the people who are most angry about it are the many Indians of our Country. Wouldn’t it be an honor to have a team named the Cleveland Indians, and wouldn’t it be disrespectful to rip that name and logo off of those jerseys? The people of Cleveland cannot be thrilled and I, as a FORMER baseball fan, cannot believe things such as this are happening. A small group of people, with absolutely crazy ideas and policies, is forcing these changes to destroy our culture and heritage. At some point, the people will not take it anymore!"--The True Chief of the United States
"Louis Francis Sockalexis was the sensation of professional baseball in 1897, featuring the skills of a five-tool player and a comparable charisma that earned him legendary status at any level he ever played. Indeed, Sockalexis was one of those rarest of talents, an athlete held in awe by his fellow athletes, who might be lucky to possess just one of his skills.
Sockalexis could: hit a baseball as far any slugger of that day; hit safely as frequently as the league’s top high average players; make spectacular fielding plays using his exceptional speed; throw the baseball prodigious distances with accuracy; be a base-stealing threat each and every time he reached base.".......
Sockalexis could: hit a baseball as far any slugger of that day; hit safely as frequently as the league’s top high average players; make spectacular fielding plays using his exceptional speed; throw the baseball prodigious distances with accuracy; be a base-stealing threat each and every time he reached base.".......
Louis Sockalexis was born just six years after the Civil War.
He grew up a tall Penobscot brave and natural athlete who could out-run, out-hit and out-field almost anyone.
For a brief and shining moment, he was one of the best ball-players in the world. He even broke the Color Barrier a half-century before Jackie Robinson.
Cleveland honored him by naming their team the Indians. Society for American Baseball Research:
He grew up a tall Penobscot brave and natural athlete who could out-run, out-hit and out-field almost anyone.
For a brief and shining moment, he was one of the best ball-players in the world. He even broke the Color Barrier a half-century before Jackie Robinson.
Cleveland honored him by naming their team the Indians. Society for American Baseball Research:
"Louis excelled on the diamond at Holy Cross, batting .436 in 1895 and .444 in 1896, and also starred as a running back on the school’s first football team in the fall of 1896. He ran track, specializing in the medium and long distances and reportedly winning five events in a single meet. However, it was as a baseball player that he shone most brightly. An incredible throw he made one day from deep center field to the plate was measured by a group of professors at 413 feet, an unofficial national record at the time. He may have been the best college player in the country, and began to draw interest from National League clubs. ...
Perhaps the high point of Sockalexis’ season came at the Polo Grounds on June 16, when he faced New York’s strikeout champion Amos Rusie. While more than 5,200 fans hooted and made Indian war cries at the Cleveland rookie, Sockalexis walloped a curveball from Rusie over right fielder Mike Tiernan’s head. By the time Tiernan could retrieve the ball, Sockalexis had sped around the bases for a home run, his third of the season. ...
Cleveland’s American League team (which began play in 1900) had been called the Naps in honor of playing manager Napoleon Lajoie, but when Lajoie left the team after the 1914 season, a new nickname was in order. In January 1915, team owner Charles Somers, after consulting with several local sportswriters, decided to revive the name that had defined the city’s National League club 18 years before. Somers... recalling the all-too-brief period of excitement that Louis Sockalexis had brought to Cleveland in 1897, dubbed his team the Indians, a name that remains to this day."
Until now.
Because today, the White Man has fucked the Red Man out of his legacy--again. Congratulations.
All for self-esteem. aka; moral vanity.
All for self-esteem. aka; moral vanity.
They want to rewrite the history books and insert a selfie showing themselves as the True Civil Rights Heroes of All Time. Even if it means erasing real Indians. That's just a price they're willing to pay to preen for the cameras in their own hands and the Narrative(tm) in their own heads.
"Louis Sockalexis wound up back on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, playing for local town teams and teaching the game to young tribesmen. He piloted a ferryboat between Indian Island, home of the reservation, and the mainland, and enjoyed reading copies of The Sporting News and other papers that his passengers left behind. Although he had apparently stopped drinking to excess, he was not healthy, and caught colds and fevers easily. He also suffered from attacks of rheumatism, and appeared much older than his years. In the fall of 1913, Sockalexis joined a logging crew that harvested trees deep in the Maine woods. While cutting down a massive pine tree on December 24 of that year, he suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 42. He was buried in the cemetery on the Penobscot reservation."
One Giant Tree of the forest took another.
Leave History Alone, Woke Idiots.
You're too stupid to fix it, even if you could. Which you can't--but, then, you're too stupid to know that, too.
Ignorant savages.
Not them, moron. You.
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