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anthonyLouis "Sock" Sockalexis, a native american indian was drafted by the cleveland spiders in 1895 or 1896 to play major league ball. he apparently played only 66 games and batted .338 that year. Hugh Jennings said "he was the best he had ever seen." Jennings wrote: "he should of been the greatest player of all times- greater than Cobb, Wagner, Lajoie, Hornsby and any other of the men who made history for the game."
when "Sock" was playing for cleveland, sportswriters for rival teams dubbed the team "The Indians." The name soon replaced Spiders and more than a century later, the team name remains the "Indians".
anyone else heard this story? and was he that good??
I got this story from a book of little known fact in american history.