Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Halberstam's engaging account of the 1949 season proves both these mythic profiles to be absolutely accurate. That year the pennant race between the two teams came down to the very last game. Of course the Sox lost it. They had done the same thing against the Cleveland Indians in a sudden-death playoff game the year before. Both teams were hobbled by injuries. But the Yankees had the poise and power...
MASTERWORKS OF MING AND QING PAINTING FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Cleveland Museum of Art. The show's 76 treasures, lent by the Palace Museum in Beijing, consist mostly of painted scrolls from China's last two imperial dynasties (1368-1644 and 1644-1911). Through...
MASTERWORKS OF MING AND QING PAINTING FROM THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Cleveland Museum of Art. Lent by the Palace Museum in Beijing, this show offers 76 treasures, mostly painted scrolls, from China's last two imperial dynasties (1368-1644 and 1644-1911). Through...
...concept is simple enough: the beautiful, wealthy owner of the lowly Cleveland Indians (Margaret Whitton) decides to move the club to the more profitable environment of Miami. In order to prevent resistance to the move, she orders her minions to gather a team so bad that it is guaranteed to land in last place...
...immune, as witness last summer's Bull Durham, Eight Men Out and Stealing Home. And here come two more films, both directed by their writers, that play games with baseball. David S. Ward's Major League is a rowdy, genially cynical comedy about jocks and Jills. Its fanciful Cleveland Indians team is a bunch of rejects from the Mexican, minor and California Penal leagues. Now coming to bat: the veteran catcher on his last legs (Tom Berenger), the Willie Mays wanna-be (Wesley Snipes), the pampered third baseman (Corbin Bernsen). And on the mound, a fastballer (Charlie Sheen) with control...