He accomplished the feat with just 74 pitches, the lowest pitch count ever achieved in a perfect game.

The list of choices for the PTBNL was narrowed down to Brantley and Taylor Green. The Indians and Brewers agreed that if the Brewers reached the 2008 MLB postseason, the Indians could make the choice. Since the Brewers made the playoffs, the Indians got to choose, and they chose Brantley. Matt LaPorta, Zach Jackson, and Rob Bryson were all acquired in the initial transaction.

Second baseman and player-manager Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie was so popular that locals actually voted to rename the team in his honor. From 1903 to 1914, the team was officially known the Cleveland Naps.

On April 8, 1993, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against New York Yankees pitchers Steve Howe and Steve Farr, the switch-hitting Baerga belted two home runs in the game's 7th inning--one from each side of the plate.

After the October 1995 egging, Belle chased one of the trick-or-treaters in his car. He was fined $100 for reckless operation of a vehicle.

Bob Hope was part of the investment group formed by Bill Veeck to purchase the team in 1946. A lifelong ambassador for the city and for the Indians, he was once featured in an episode of I Love Lucy set during an Indians-Yankees game, in which Lucy sees the opportunity to persuade Hope to appear at her husband's nightclub. She dresses as a hot dog vendor, approaches Hope, distracts him and a foul ball bonks him on the head.

In 1948, 21 years after his first Negro League appearance, Leroy "Satchel" Paige made his major league debut with the Indians. That same year, the 42-year-old rookie would become the first player who had played in the Negro leagues to pitch in a world series.

Ray Chapman spent his entire career as a shortstop for the Cleveland Indians. On August 16, 1920, he was struck in the head during a game against the New York Yankees. At the time, pitchers commonly dirtied balls with soil, licorice, and tobacco juice, making them difficult to see. The sound of the ball striking Chapman's skull was so loud that Mays thought it had hit the end of Chapman's bat. He fielded the ball and threw to first base. Chapman was rushed to the hospital but died the next morning. Cleveland players wore black armbands for the remainder of the season.

In 1995, Belle became the first player in major league history to hit 50 home runs and 50 doubles in the same season; the last player before him to reach as many as 40 in both categories had been Willie Stargell in 1973. The achievement was especially impressive because Belle played only 143 games in 1995 due to a season shortened by the previous year's player strike.

Eddie Taubensee is known primarily for being the player received by the Astros in exchange for outfielder Kenny Lofton, a trade that many consider to be one of the most lopsided moves made in the 1990s as Lofton became a .300 hitter, a gold glove-caliber center fielder, and the premiere base stealing threat in the American League.