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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former MLB executive Pat Gillick won three World Series titles and served as general manager of four baseball teams from the 1970s to 2000s. But when we interviewed him for our documentary ...

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.

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 ...

Do you think they know? No, how could they?How could the lunchtime crowd at Pistachio’s in Allentown know there was a real-life Hall of Famer in their midst?And not just any Hall of Famer. It ...

He and Cy Slapnicka, a former general manager and scout who signed Hall of Fame pitchers Bob Feller and Bob Lemon, will be inducted Aug. 7. A five-time All-Star, Lofton played 10 seasons with ...

When Iowa teen phenom Bob Feller was signed by Cleveland Indians scout Cy Slapnicka in 1935, Slapnicka simply took out a pen, wrote out a contract and had Feller and his father sign it, because ...