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Indians facing curse?

December 25, 2009 By Ed Rice

Perhaps the city of Cleveland and fans of the Indians should be asking the question: Are we in the presence of a baseball curse, one that may be beginning to approach the magnitude of the one that allegedly faced the Red Sox for 86 years and is steadily creeping toward the magnitude of the one that still, allegedly, plagues the Cubs for more than 100 years now? If there is a curse, it’s deserved. Already, around the country and here in Maine, people are beginning to talk about the “Curse … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cleveland and Chief Wahoo

Hall should address real issues

August 24, 2009 By Ed Rice

“Forget Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, put Louis Sockalexis in the Baseball Hall of Fame!” To hear that truly great master of being disingenuous and champion of using “Straw Man” fallacies — using logic fallacies I’ve cautioned my students not to use on their peers in my oral communications classes for a decade — you’d think that is my position and the Penobscot Nation position, according to Bradford Horn, National Baseball Hall of Fame public relations director. Of course, if you had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baseball Hall of Fame Disrespect

Sports Illustrated should recognize Sockalexises

August 10, 2009 By Ed Rice

By Ed Rice, Special to the Bangor Daily News In a largely admirable July 31 editorial in the Bangor Daily News titled “A Baseball First,” the Penobscot Nation tribe was supported in its efforts demanding respect for Louis Sockalexis from the Cleveland Indians baseball franchise, but that editorial contains the very regrettable line that “the tribe might do well to narrow the focus of its outrage.” No, it should not! And since more than 137 media outlets all across the country published the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sports Illustrated Disrespect

Author wants Sports Illustrated to honor Penobscot athletes’ legacy

April 26, 2009 By Gale Toesing

Gale Courey Toensing 4/26/09 Indian Country Today ORONO, Maine – Author and professor Ed Rice is passionate about Penobscot Nation super-athletes and cousins Louis and Andrew Sockalexis. Louis was a phenomenal baseball player who rose to legendary heights in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was the inspiration for the nickname “Indians” that the Cleveland major league franchise first adopted in March 1897, and then officially adopted in February 1915. Andrew is among the greatest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sports Illustrated Disrespect

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