CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 3-point shot in basketball began in the American Basketball League with the Space Age in 1961. The Cleveland Pipers won the only full-season championship conferred by that rival of the NBA.
It was the last basketball championship in Cleveland until The Swat, The Shot and the Stop in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors.
Swinging and shooting for the fences
The Chicago White Sox, owned by the promotional genius (and former Cleveland Indians' owner) Bill Veeck, had an "exploding scoreboard." Fireworks erupted from it when a White Sox player hit a home run.