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Originally posted by Chez View PostThe Cleveland Spiders would be a good fit and a nice nod to history.
Also, I don't believe that they were named after Lou Sockalexis. He played with the Spiders for three years in the 1890s and was gone and forgotten by the time the Indians changed their name from the Naps in 1915. "Indians" was chosen in a fan contest. One writer once argued that the name was probably more inspired by the Boston Braves, who had won the 1914 World Series after being in last place on July 4th. I think that's much closer to the truth than the Lou Sockalexis tall tale.
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