Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

Relive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory!

Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win almost any game? When screaming fans rocked the jam-packed stands every night? When a brash young team snapped a forty-year slump and electrified the city?

Those weren’t baseball seasons, they were year-long celebrations.

Step back into the glory days with sportswriter Terry Pluto and broadcaster Tom Hamilton as they share behind-the-scenes stories about a team with all-stars at nearly every position . . . a sparkling new ballpark . . . wild comeback victories . . . a record sellout streak . . . two trips to the World Series . . . and a city crazed with Indians fever.

Revisit baseball’s most fearsome lineup: Albert Belle’s mighty swing and ferocious glare . . . Jim Thome’s moon-shot home runs . . . Omar Vizquel’s poetry-in-motion play at shortstop . . . Kenny Lofton’s exhilarating baserunning and over-the-wall catches . . .

These two Cleveland baseball veterans were there for it all. Now, they combine firsthand experience and in-depth player interviews to tell a rich, detailed story that Tribe fans will love.

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Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

Relive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory!

Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win almost any game? When screaming fans rocked the jam-packed stands every night? When a brash young team snapped a forty-year slump and electrified the city?

Those weren’t baseball seasons, they were year-long celebrations.

Step back into the glory days with sportswriter Terry Pluto and broadcaster Tom Hamilton as they share behind-the-scenes stories about a team with all-stars at nearly every position . . . a sparkling new ballpark . . . wild comeback victories . . . a record sellout streak . . . two trips to the World Series . . . and a city crazed with Indians fever.

Revisit baseball’s most fearsome lineup: Albert Belle’s mighty swing and ferocious glare . . . Jim Thome’s moon-shot home runs . . . Omar Vizquel’s poetry-in-motion play at shortstop . . . Kenny Lofton’s exhilarating baserunning and over-the-wall catches . . .

These two Cleveland baseball veterans were there for it all. Now, they combine firsthand experience and in-depth player interviews to tell a rich, detailed story that Tribe fans will love.

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Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

Glory Days in Tribe Town: The Cleveland Indians and Jacobs Field 1994-1997

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Relive the most thrilling seasons of Cleveland Indians baseball in recent memory!

Remember the excitement of those first years at Jacobs Field? When it seemed the Indians could find a way to win almost any game? When screaming fans rocked the jam-packed stands every night? When a brash young team snapped a forty-year slump and electrified the city?

Those weren’t baseball seasons, they were year-long celebrations.

Step back into the glory days with sportswriter Terry Pluto and broadcaster Tom Hamilton as they share behind-the-scenes stories about a team with all-stars at nearly every position . . . a sparkling new ballpark . . . wild comeback victories . . . a record sellout streak . . . two trips to the World Series . . . and a city crazed with Indians fever.

Revisit baseball’s most fearsome lineup: Albert Belle’s mighty swing and ferocious glare . . . Jim Thome’s moon-shot home runs . . . Omar Vizquel’s poetry-in-motion play at shortstop . . . Kenny Lofton’s exhilarating baserunning and over-the-wall catches . . .

These two Cleveland baseball veterans were there for it all. Now, they combine firsthand experience and in-depth player interviews to tell a rich, detailed story that Tribe fans will love.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781938441356
Publisher: Gray & Company, Publishers
Publication date: 11/10/2014
Pages: 333
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for The Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation’s top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is a nine-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of 23 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrated’s list of the top 100 sports books of all time. He was called “Perhaps the best American writer of sports books,” by the Chicago Tribune in 1997.

Tom Hamilton, the "Voice of the Indians," has called Cleveland Indians baseball games on the radio since 1990. He called all 69 postseason games the Indians have played over that span, including the 1995 and 1997 World Series. His tenure is the second-longest in club history.

Table of Contents

About this Book
When Cleveland Really Was a Tribe Town
Where It Came From
In the Booth With Herb
Hank Peters, the Moses of Tribe Baseball
Sandy Alomar: The Tribe’s Underappreciated Star
The Stadium: Finally, Out With the Old
Carlos Baerga: The Heartbeat of the Tribe
John Hart’s Greatest Sales Job
Radio
A New Beginning
A True New Day For the Tribe
A New Ballpark, A New Game
Mike Hargrove Finally Makes it to the New Ballpark
Albert Belle: You Didn’t Want to Miss a Single At-Bat
Kenny Lofton
Manny Ramirez Made Hitting Look Easy
Going to Jacobs Field
Heart of the Order
Omar Vizquel
Eddie Murray: A Great Teammate
Dennis Martinez and the Greatest Game
Orel Hershiser: Climbing Twin Peaks
Charlie Manuel
Jim Thome and the Statue
Don’t Forget About Charlie Nagy
The 1995 Season
The End of Innocence
Lofton Flies Away from the Tribe, then Comes Home
Belle Blows Out of Town
1996: The Loss of Innocence
Hart and Hargrove, the Tribe’s Odd Couple
Jaret Wright: One Special Season
Herb Score’s Quick Goodbye
Dick Jacobs Knew When to Buy ... and Sell
Players
Rebuilding
Tom Hamilton, An Old-Fashioned Radio Man
1997: The Best and the Worst Season
The 1997 Season
Looking Back
Acknowledgements
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