The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since 1994 The Cleveland Indians have played in Progressive Field (formerly Jacobs Field). The team's spring training facility is in Winter Haven, Florida, but will move to Goodyear, Arizona in 2009.


The “Indians” derives its name from a appeal made by the owner of the club to make a decision a new name after the 1914 season. Regarding the Boston Braves, now Atlanta Braves, has preferred the media “Indians news“. They are nicknamed “The root” and “Wahoos.” The later is a reference to the mascot of the team seems’s logos, Chief Wahoo. The club and its designate Cartoon logo has been criticized for keeping Native American stereotypes and protests have occasionally.


One of the American League’s eight charter franchises, the club was founded in 1901 in Cleveland. The team began to play successfully in 1900 that the AL was officially a minor league. Then they are move permanently from Cleveland Municipal Stadium in 1946. From the end of the 2007 season, they all have a time franchise record 8476 8097. The Indians are the defending 2007 Central American Champions League. Read for information at Cleveland Indians blogs or http://bleacherreport.com/Cleveland-Indians