The Cleveland Indians: 1946-1960

The Cleveland Indians were the penultimate team in baseball's American League in the latter part of the Golden Age of the game. Their pitching staff dominated behind the Big Four of Feller, Lemon, Garcia and Wynn, while the big bats of Boudreau, Doby, Rosen, Keltner and others punished opposing hurlers. Cleveland was the only team that perennially threatened the Yankee club, twice pushing through to the league pennant in '48 (and the franchise's last World Series title) and a record-setting season in '54 when they won 111 of their 154 contests. This book is a history of the transactions in the Indians effort each year to assemble the right mix of players to break through the pin-striped ceiling.