Cleveland Indians name....is this true??

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Posted By: Rhys

Chief Zimmer was the captain of the Poughkeepsie Indians baseball team and as a result, since the team was the "Indians" and he was their leader, he was nicknames Chief. This is widely known and I used to own a Zimmer cabinet while he played with Poughkeepsie.

Sockalexis was probably the best natural talent to ever play. Ed Barrow said he was better than Ruth while Barrow was Ruth's GM. Jennings, McGraw and countless other managers and executives who were paid to evaluate talent all said pretty much the same thing. Not that he was the best player ever, but the best natural talent that any of them had ever seen.

Just for reference, there are about 4-5 photos picturing Sockalexis known to exist in private hands while a few others are in archives and University libraries, and one known signature at the Archives at Holy Cross University. Depending on who you talk to, there is either one or two known examples of his Cameo Pepsin Gum Pin. His personal possessions he had and a scrapbook of his achievments were at a relatives house on Indian Island in Maine and later all burned in a House Fire.

I gre up near his reservation and even the Penobscot tribe themselves owned essentially nothing vintage on Sockalexis. I will try and get a scan of my one original Sockalexis piece up later.

Rhys Yeakley