Kenny Lofton is the newest inductee to the Indians Hall of Fame, but what about Cooperstown? Lofton, who used speed to steal over 600 bases in his career, says the fact he never used steroids when ...

Men like Hugh Alexander, baseball men will tell you, are the bedrock of the sport. Alexander was a baseball lifer, a superscout near the top of the Philadelphia Phillies hierarchy, considered one ...

Then, the St. Louis Cardinals came to town for an exhibition game [on July 6], and Cy Slapnicka, who was also the Indians’ general manager, had me pitch against them.

The way Feller told the story, on the 7th of December he was driving his new Buick from his home in Iowa to Chicago, for a meeting with Cy Slapnicka, Cleveland's general manager, and manager Roger ...

He and Cy Slapnicka, a former general manager and scout who signed Hall of Fame pitchers Bob Feller and Bob Lemon, will be inducted on Aug. 7 before the Indians host Minnesota.

Elmer Kohorst was a standout high school baseball player when he was spotted by a major league baseball scout. The scout, Cy Slapnicka, who had signed Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Feller, had a ...

FELLER, ROBERT WILLIAM ANDREW “BOB” (3 November 1918-15 December 2010) was a Hall of Fame pitcher, and possibly the greatest player ever to put on a CLEVELAND INDIANS uniform. Feller was born in Van ...

HARDER, MELVIN LEROY “MEL” (15 October 1909-20 October 2002) was a longtime pitcher and pitching coach for the CLEVELAND INDIANS. Harder was born in Nebraska and signed a minor-league contract with ...