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To: yesthatjallen
The Cleveland Indians are named to honor a specific person. Early in their history, while they were named the Cleveland Spiders, they had a man who was the first of his kind. His name was Louis Sockalexis.

He was a Penobscot Indian from Maine. His remaining family and the Penobscots are very proud of that.

He was the first Indian to play Major League baseball, but had to endure racial taunts and slurs from the press and players from other teams.

52 posted on 07/21/2020 9:49:30 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month".)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Interesting factoid. But the modern punk doesn’t GAS.


69 posted on 07/22/2020 1:14:13 AM PDT by Gene Eric ( Don't be a statist!)
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