Charles Nagy
Eighteen Crazy Nights—Looking back at the 1997 Cleveland Indians
March 4, 2013 | Mike Brandyberry
Each week during the 2012-13 offseason DTTWLN will take a look back at the 1997 Cleveland Indians season—specifically the 18 thrilling games of the postseason as the Indians made an improbable run to game seven of the World Series.
PART EIGHTEEN: WORLD SERIES GAME 3—FOOTBALL WEATHER AND FOOTBALL NUMBERS
By Steve Eby
The city of Cleveland has long been a football town, but when Browns owner Art Modell moved his beloved franchise to Baltimore in 1995, the town turned to baseball as its #1 love.
The Indians were the talk of the town—the golden children now that the Browns were long gone. In 1997, they were competing in their second World Series in three years and had come back from sunny Miami tied at 1-1 with the Florida Marlins.
Normally, an October 21st game that was played while the wind-chill was 23° would be reserved for the Cleveland Browns, but that was exactly what the Indians and Mother Nature brought to Jacobs Field for Game Three of the ’97 Fall Classic. Read More
Eighteen Crazy Nights—Looking back at the 1997 Cleveland Indians
February 11, 2013 | Mike Brandyberry
Each week during the 2012-13 offseason DTTWLN will take a look back at the 1997 Cleveland Indians season—specifically the 18 thrilling games of the postseason as the Indians made an improbable run to game seven of the World Series.
PART FIFTEEN: ALCS GAME 6—ONE FOR THE AGES
By Steve Eby
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”
-John Lennon
As the Cleveland Indians started batting practice before their Game Six showdown with the Baltimore Orioles in the 1997 American League Championship Series, Manager Mike Hargrove figured that everything was where it was meant to be.
Bip Roberts, a key midseason acquisition, was leading off and playing second base.
Tony Fernandez, an offseason free-agent signing that had lost his regular playing time when the team traded for Roberts, was penciled in as a reserve player on the bench.
It was all set. The regular lineup was ready to face Mike Mussina…the hottest pitcher on the planet. Read More
The Greatest Summer Ever: Charles Nagy
July 21, 2012 | Steve EbyEach week through the 26 weeks of the 2012 regular season, DTTWLN will profile and break down the roster of arguably the most exciting sports team that Cleveland has ever seen; the 1995 Cleveland Indians. The ’95 Tribe won 100 games in a strike-shortened 144-game schedule, won their first Central Division title and made the playoffs and World Series for the first time since 1954. Six players made the American League All-Star team, eight players batted .300 or better, and the pitching staff had the lowest ERA in the American League. The players have been ranked from the most important to the Tribe’s success to the 26th. This week breaks down #11 Charles Nagy.
The Indians drafted starting pitcher Charles Nagy in the first round of the 1988 amateur draft. He was the 17th overall pick and the Indians had hopes that the former UConn Husky and Olympian would turn out to be a consistent, front of the rotation starter.
Nagy started showing the Tribe just what he was made of during his official rookie year in 1991. He won 10 games as a rookie for an Indians team that only won 57, giving Nagy a win in almost one fifth of the team’s victories that season. For his efforts, Nagy finished eighth in the American League Rookie of the Year voting.
