CLEVELAND • As if to add immolation to insult, the shaky-kneed National League scheduled the Cleveland Spiders’ 1899 opener at St. Louis against the newly christened, smartly garbed, but strangely familiar St. Louis Perfectos.
Just a year before many of them had been Spiders.
That included the opening day starter, a fellow by the name of Cy Young.
As Cleveland readies to host its first ever Game 1 of the World Series, newspapers will spill a lot of ink – pixels? – on the history at stake in this Fall Classic. Cleveland is out to win its first World Series since 1948, three years after the National League champion Chicago Cubs last visited the World Series.