The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Cleveland Indians: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments from Cleveland Indians

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Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the Cleveland Indians documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining-and unsparing-fashion, this book sparkles with Indians highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the impressive playoff run in 2007 and the opening of Jacobs Field, but also the 23-2 loss to the Twins in 2003 and the debacle that was the "ten cent beer night" in 1974. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.

Mary Schmitt Boyer is a general assignment sports reporter for the Plain Dealer. An award-winning sportswriter who has specialized in covering basketball and the Olympics, she has served as president of the Association for Women in Sports Media and received the organization's Pioneer Award. She has written or coauthored six sports books. She lives in Avon Lake, Ohio. Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for the Plain Dealer. He is an award-winning writer who has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation's top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers, and is a nine-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award. He is an inductee to the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame and the author of over 20 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito and Loose Balls. He lives in Akron, Ohio.