How the Tribe front office controversially traded away the face of the franchise just to prove a point and may have inadvertently created a curse.
While the Indians had finally broken through the Yankees stranglehold in 1954 for their second (and most recent!) title, by 1957, they had slipped into the second division. That winter, ownership hired Frank Lane to run the franchise. He had just culminated a two year stay with the Cardinals where he actually tried to trade away Stan Musial for Robin Roberts. Prior to that he had made a whopping 241 trades in just seven years on the job with the Chicago White Sox.