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Originally Posted by davidb

Hi Jim,

Thanks for sharing your postcard. There is much debate with no definitive result about whether the Cleveland ball club changed the name to Indians in 1915 to honor Sockalexis. His big league glory days were quite limited to two seasons and the bottle seemed to have derailed future stardom but what a grand story.

Thank you. His story is such a sad one. Such promise wasted.

I almost bypassed this postcard while looking through hundreds of sports postcards in an antique store. I’m guessing it’s from the early 1920’s.