It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
I love the normalcy of Cleveland. There's regular people there.
I'm a Cleveland guy, man. I love this city.
Cleveland fans are awesome.
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days.
I am forever a Cleveland Brown.