Professional baseball teams could sign players before they graduated from high school in those days. Feller, 16 and living with his family on its farm in Van Meter, Iowa, had just completed his ...

Kenny Lofton played fast, played hard and, perhaps most importantly, he insists he played clean in an era when steroids were baseball’s dirty little secret. Lofton’s statistics earned him a place in ...

, the base-stealing, Gold-Glove winning center fielder from the Indians' Renaissance period, will be inducted into the team's Hall of Fame on Aug. 7 at Progressive Field. "I was ecstatic," Lofton told ...

Kenny Lofton, the pre-eminent leadoff hitter and base stealer in franchise history, was picked for the Cleveland Indians' Hall of Fame yesterday. He and Cy Slapnicka, a former general manager and ...

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 ...