Remembering Sockalexis as debate over Indians' team name continues | The Courier After consulting with leadership at all four of Cleveland's newspapers, Somers chose the Indians. None of the news stories written about the name change mentioned Louis Sockalexis, the former Cleveland Spiders outfielder who is widely considered the first person with Native American heritage to play professional baseball. An unsigned editorial in The Plain Dealer did mention Sockalexis.

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