1921 Cleveland Indians "Worlds Champions" Baseball Uniform Jersey

Commemorates the 1920 Cleveland Indians MLB World Champions

Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Company

Vintage Exact Reproduction Wool Blend Baseball Jersey 

Near mint to mint condition like new vintage Mitchell & Ness Cooperstown Collection throwback 1921 baseball jersey worn the season after capturing the MLB World Championship in the 1920 season. No hang tags. Note one small fabric hole/blemish on the back side of the jersey near the left sleeve armpit. See pictures for details. Please ask questions in advance. Thanks for shopping Blue Streak Collectibles!

One of a kind hand replica reproduction by the world famous Mitchell & Ness baseball uniform company out of Philadelphia, PA.

Major League Baseball Officially Licensed

Vintage MLB "Cooperstown Collection"

Jersey Size (please see actual measurements): Large (L)

Approximate Width (Chest Measurement): 26" Across / 52" Completely Around (please see photos)
Approximate Length (Top Center Back Neck Collar To Center Back Bottom): 35" (please see photos)
Approximate Sleeve Underseam Length (arm pit seam to bottom sleeve cuff): 11" (please see photos)
Approximate Sleeve Topseam Length (top neck/collar opening to top arm sleeve cuff opening): 23"
Approximate Sleeve Band Opening: 7-8" Across / 15-16" Completely Around (please see photos)

Jersey Material: 100% Wool
Jersey Partial Button Front Placket  (approx.) 16" (4 buttons)
Jersey Front Full Chest sewn-on felt "W O R L D S  C H A M P I O N S" letters (2.5" - 3.5" letter height)
Jersey Front Left Botton sewn-on official Cooperstown Collection by Mitchell & Ness patch (4" height)
Jersey Care: Dry Clean Only

The 1921 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. A year after winning their first World Series championship, the team finished second in the American League with a record of 94–60, 4.5 games behind the New York Yankees.

Roster

1921 Cleveland Indians

Roster

Pitchers

Jim Bagby
Ray Caldwell
Bob Clark
Stan Coveleski
Bernie Henderson
Duster Mails
Guy Morton
Ted Odenwald
Jesse Petty
Allen Sothoron
George Uhle

Catchers

Les Nunamaker
Steve O'Neill
Luke Sewell
Ginger Shinault
Pinch Thomas
Art Wilson

Infielders

George Burns
Larry Gardner
Lou Guisto
Doc Johnston
Joe Sewell
Riggs Stephenson
Bill Wambsganss

Outfielders

Joe Evans
Jack Graney
Charlie Jamieson
Tex Jeanes
Elmer Smith
Tris Speaker
Joe Wood

Manager

Tris Speaker

Coaches

Jack McCallister

1921 Cleveland Indians

League: American League

Ballpark: Dunn Field

City Cleveland, Ohio

Owners Jim Dunn

Managers Tris Speaker


The 1920 World Series was the championship series for Major League Baseball's 1920 season. The series was a best-of-nine format played between the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians and the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Robins, with the Indians defeating the Robins five games to two. The only World Series triple play, the first World Series grand slam, and the first World Series home run by a pitcher all occurred in Game 5 of this series. This was also the first World Series and first Big Four championship series to feature two brothers on opposing teams, with Doc Johnston playing for Cleveland and Jimmy Johnston playing for Brooklyn.[1]

The Indians won the series in memory of their former shortstop Ray Chapman, who had been killed earlier in the season when struck in the head by a pitched ball.

In Game 5, Cleveland second basemen Bill Wambsganss turned an unassisted triple play. He caught a line drive off the bat of Clarence Mitchell, stepped on second base to put out Pete Kilduff, and tagged Otto Miller coming from first base. It was the second of 15 (as of 2022) unassisted triple plays in major-league baseball history, and it remains the only one in postseason play. Mitchell made history again in the eighth inning by hitting into a double play, accounting for five outs in two straight at-bats.

The fifth game also saw the first grand slam in World Series history (hit by Cleveland's Elmer Smith) and the first Series home run by a pitcher (Cleveland's Jim Bagby, Sr.). And in that same game, Brooklyn outhit Cleveland but lost 8–1.

Cleveland had won the American League pennant in a close race with the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees. The Sox's participation in the Black Sox Scandal the previous year had caught up to them late in the season, and their star players were suspended with three games left in the season, when they were in a virtual tie with the Indians. The Yankees, with their recently acquired star Babe Ruth, were almost ready to start their eventual World Series dynasty.

This was the second of three consecutive World Series to use a best-of-nine format, instead of the usual best-of-seven. To reduce travel during the Series, the 2-3-2-2 format that was used in 1919 was changed to 3-4-2. Notably, all seven games of the 1920 World Series were won by the team who scored first. In fact, Game 4 was the only game in which the losing team scored a run before the winning team had scored all of its runs. The lead never changed hands in any game.

This would be the last World Series until 1980 to feature two franchises that had not previously won a championship.

Summary

AL Cleveland Indians (5) vs. NL Brooklyn Robins (2)

Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 

1 October 5 Cleveland Indians – 3, Brooklyn Robins – 1 Ebbets Field 1:41 23,573[2] 
2 October 6 Cleveland Indians – 0, Brooklyn Robins – 3 Ebbets Field 1:55 22,559[3] 
3 October 7 Cleveland Indians – 1, Brooklyn Robins – 2 Ebbets Field 1:47 25,088[4] 
4 October 9 Brooklyn Robins – 1, Cleveland Indians – 5 League Park 1:54 25,734[5] 
5 October 10 Brooklyn Robins – 1, Cleveland Indians – 8 League Park 1:49 26,884[6] 
6 October 11 Brooklyn Robins – 0, Cleveland Indians – 1 League Park 1:34 27,194[7] 
7 October 12 Brooklyn Robins – 0, Cleveland Indians – 3 League Park 1:55 27,525[8]

Matchups

Game 1

Game 1 at Ebbets Field

Tuesday, October 5, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Cleveland 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 1

WP: Stan Coveleski (1–0)   LP: Rube Marquard (0–1)

Game 1 took a mere 1 hour, 41 minutes. Steve O'Neill supplied RBI doubles in the second and fourth innings in support of Stan Coveleski, who won it for the visiting Indians with a five-hitter.

Game 2

Wednesday, October 6, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Cleveland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1

Brooklyn 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 X 3 7 0

WP: Burleigh Grimes (1–0)   LP: Jim Bagby (0–1)

A first-inning run on a Jimmy Johnston single and Zack Wheat double would be all Dodger pitcher Burleigh Grimes would require in a complete-game shutout.

Game 3

Thursday, October 7, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Cleveland 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1
Brooklyn 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 2 6 1

WP: Sherry Smith (1–0)   LP: Ray Caldwell (0–1)

Brooklyn scored twice in the first on hits by Zack Wheat and Hi Myers that chased Cleveland starter Ray Caldwell from the game. The only run winning pitcher Sherry Smith gave up in a three-hitter came when Tris Speaker came all the way around on a double that was misplayed in left field.

Game 4

Saturday, October 9, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Brooklyn 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 1
Cleveland 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 X 5 12 2

WP: Stan Coveleski (2–0)   LP: Leon Cadore (0–1)

Brooklyn starter Leon Cadore didn't make it past the first inning. His relievers didn't fare much better, Al Mamaux being removed in the third and Rube Marquard greeted by a George Burns two-run double. Stan Coveleski cruised with a five-hitter for his second win of the Series.

Game 5

Sunday, October 10, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13 1
Cleveland 4 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 X 8 12 2

WP: Jim Bagby (1–1)   LP: Burleigh Grimes (1–1)
Home runs:
BRO: None
CLE: Elmer Smith (1), Jim Bagby (1)

The Cleveland Times ran the following article on Monday, October 11, 1920, recounting Game 5 and Wambsganss' triple play:

CLEVELAND, Sunday Oct 10, 1920 – Bill Wambsganss' unassisted triple play highlighted the most unusual game in World Series history today and helped the Cleveland Indians to a wild 8–1 victory over the Brooklyn Robins. Elmer Smith hit a grand slam and Jim Bagby also homered as the Indians took the lead in games three to two. The triple play and grand slam had never happened before in World Series history and Bagby became the first pitcher to homer in a World Series. "I've been in baseball 40 years", Robins manager Wilbert Robinson said, "and I never saw one like this." The first Indian to face Burleigh Grimes was Charlie Johnson, who singled. He stopped at second on Wambsganss' single. Then Grimes fell fielding Tris Speaker's bunt, loading the bases. Then Smith hit a 1–2 pitch over the right field screen for a 4–0 lead. In the home fourth, Doc Johnston singled to center and moved up on a passed ball. After Grimes put Steve O'Neill on, Bagby homered into the center field stands. Pete Kilduff began the top of the fifth with a single to left center. When Otto Miller singled to center, Speaker's quick throw to third drove Kilduff back to second. That brought up reliever Clarence Mitchell, who went six for sixteen as a pinch-hitter this season and sometimes fills in at first base and in the outfield. A left-handed hitter, he drove the ball toward right center. Second baseman Wambsganss moved slightly to his right, tipped onto his toes, sprung a little bit and grabbed the ball with his gloved hand. Never hesitating, he continued to second base, easily doubling Kilduff. Then when Wamby turned to throw to first base he saw Miller frozen directly in front of him. Reaching out, Wamby tagged Miller easily. The crowd was silent momentarily, then, realizing what had happened, broke into thunderous applause. In the Brooklyn eighth, Ernie Krueger singled to center. But Mitchell grounded to first baseman Johnson, who started a double play. Thus, Mitchell accounted for five outs in two at-bats.

Game 6

Monday, October 11, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Cleveland 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 1 7 3

WP: Duster Mails (1–0)   LP: Sherry Smith (1–1)

Even faster than Game 1, this one was done in just 94 minutes. Duster Mails twirled a three-hit shutout, and the lone run came in the sixth on a Tris Speaker two-out single, followed by a George Burns double.

Game 7

Tuesday, October 12, 1920 2:00 pm (ET) at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2
Cleveland 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 X 3 7 3

WP: Stan Coveleski (3–0)   LP: Burleigh Grimes (1–2)

The Robins didn't score in the last two games. Their pitcher, Burleigh Grimes, committed an error on a Cleveland double steal that resulted in the game's first run. Stan Coveleski needed no more, but got one in the fifth from a Tris Speaker run-scoring triple and another in the seventh on Charlie Jamieson's RBI double. Spitball pitcher Coveleski won for the third time and the Indians celebrated before their home fans.

Composite line score

1920 World Series (5–2): Cleveland Indians (A.L.) over Brooklyn Robins (N.L.)

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Cleveland Indians 6 2 2 6 2 2 1 0 0 21 53 12
Brooklyn Robins 3 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 8 44 6

Total attendance: 178,557   Average attendance: 25,508

Winning player's share: $4,168   Losing player's share: $2,420



The 1920 Cleveland Indians season was the 20th season in franchise history. The Indians won the American League pennant and proceeded to win their first World Series title in the history of the franchise. Pitchers Jim Bagby, Stan Coveleski and Ray Caldwell combined to win 75 games.[1] Despite the team's success, the season was perhaps more indelibly marked by the death of starting shortstop Ray Chapman, who died after being hit by a pitch on August 16.

During the season, Jim Bagby became the last pitcher to win 30 games in one season for the Indians in the 20th century.[2]

On August 17, shortstop Ray Chapman died after being hit by a pitch in a game against the Yankees, becoming the second of only two Major League Baseball players to have died as a result of an injury received in a game (the first was Mike "Doc" Powers in 1909).[3]

Season standings

American League

Team W L Pct. GB Home Road

Cleveland Indians 98 56 .636 — 51‍–‍27 47‍–‍29
Chicago White Sox 96 58 .623 2 52‍–‍25 44‍–‍33
New York Yankees 95 59 .617 3 49‍–‍28 46‍–‍31
St. Louis Browns 76 77 .497 21½ 40‍–‍38 36‍–‍39
Boston Red Sox 72 81 .471 25½ 41‍–‍35 31‍–‍46
Washington Senators 68 84 .447 29 37‍–‍38 31‍–‍46
Detroit Tigers 61 93 .396 37 32‍–‍46 29‍–‍47
Philadelphia Athletics 48 106 .312 50 25‍–‍50 23‍–‍56

Record vs. opponents

1920 American League record

Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH

Boston — 12–10 6–16 13–9 9–13 13–9–1 9–13 10–11
Chicago 10–12 — 10–12 19–3 10–12 16–6 14–8 17–5
Cleveland 16–6 12–10 — 15–7 9–13 16–6 15–7 15–7
Detroit 9–13 3–19 7–15 — 7–15 12–10–1 10–12 13–9
New York 13–9 12–10 13–9 15–7 — 19–3 12–10 11–11
Philadelphia 9–13–1 6–16 6–16 10–12–1 3–19 — 8–14 6–16
St. Louis 13–9 8–14 7–15 12–10 10–12 14–8 — 12–9–1
Washington 11–10 5–17 7–15 9–13 11–11 16–6 9–12–1 —


Roster

1920 Cleveland Indians

Roster

Pitchers

Jim Bagby
Joe Boehling
Ray Caldwell
Bob Clark
Stan Coveleski
George Ellison
Tony Faeth
Duster Mails
Guy Morton
Tim Murchison
Elmer Myers
Dick Niehaus
George Uhle

Catchers

Les Nunamaker
Steve O'Neill

Pinch Thomas

Infielders

George Burns
Ray Chapman
Larry Gardner
Doc Johnston
Harry Lunte
Joe Sewell
Bill Wambsganss

Outfielders

Joe Evans
Jack Graney
Charlie Jamieson
Elmer Smith
Tris Speaker
Joe Wood

Manager

Tris Speaker

Coaches

Jack McCallister

Player stats

= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = 
Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

C Steve O'Neill 149 489 157 .321 3 55
1B Doc Johnston 147 535 156 .292 2 71
2B Bill Wambsganss 153 565 138 .244 1 55
3B Larry Gardner 154 597 185 .310 3 118
SS Ray Chapman 111 435 132 .303 3 49
LF Charlie Jamieson 108 370 118 .319 1 40
CF Tris Speaker 150 552 214 .388 8 107
RF Elmer Smith 129 456 144 .316 12 103

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

Joe Evans 56 172 60 .349 0 23
Jack Graney 62 152 45 .296 0 13
Joe Wood 61 137 37 .270 1 30
Harry Lunte 23 71 14 .197 0 7
Joe Sewell 22 70 23 .329 0 12
George Burns 44 56 15 .268 0 13
Les Nunamaker 34 54 18 .333 0 14
Pinch Thomas 9 9 3 .333 0 0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = 
Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Jim Bagby 48 339.2 31 12 2.89 73
Stan Coveleski 41 315.0 24 14 2.49 133
Ray Caldwell 34 237.2 20 10 3.86 80
Guy Morton 29 137.0 8 6 4.47 72
Duster Mails 9 63.1 7 0 1.85 25

Note: Guy Morton was team leader in saves with 3.

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L SV ERA SO

George Uhle 27 84.2 4 5 0 5.21 27
Elmer Myers 16 71.2 2 4 0 4.77 16
Bob Clark 11 42.0 1 2 0 3.43 8
Dick Niehaus 19 40.0 1 2 0 3.60 12
Tony Faeth 13 25.0 0 0 0 4.32 14
Joe Boehling 3 13.0 0 1 0 4.85 4
Tim Murchison 2 5.0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Joe Wood 1 2.0 0 0 0 22.50 1
George Ellison 1 1.0 0 0 0 0.00 1



Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia Co., is an American sports-related clothing company located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company was established in 1904 as a sports equipment manufacturer, remaining as the oldest sporting company in Philadelphia. After several years of making baseball and American football uniforms, the company switched direction in 1983, when it decided to recreate vintage jerseys.

Nowadays, Mitchell & Ness has license agreements with four of the major sports leagues of the United States (MLB, NBA, NFL, and MLS) to produce and commercialize vintage sports equipment and casual wear.

Some of Mitchell & Ness products include team uniforms (jerseys and shorts) and other casual wear such as t-shirts, tracksuits, jackets, hoodies, hats, knit caps, and other accessories (pennants). The company also has its own brand, "M&N".

In past years, Mitchell & Ness also had license agreements with the NHL and NCAA.

Mitchell & Ness's throwback uniforms were created to reproduce classic to very modern team and player sports jerseys which are either no longer available or hard to find. Mitchell & Ness began producing baseball (Cooperstown Collection) jerseys in 1988, although the company gained popularity in the international retail market ten years after with the introduction of the NBA "Hardwood Classics" line. The company later moved on to reproducing popular throwbacks of American football and NHL players.

Frank P. Mitchell, a former Amateur Athletic Union tennis and wrestling champion, and Charles M. Ness, an avid golfer born in Scotland, together founded "Mitchell & Ness Sporting Goods" in 1904. Their original store made and strung hand-crafted tennis rackets and, using imported woods from Scotland, stolen from England, constructed custom-made golf clubs. In time, they expanded their business, selling uniforms to local baseball and American football teams. When the Philadelphia Eagles entered the young National Football League (NFL) in 1933, Mitchell & Ness supplied the team jerseys and equipment. Mitchell & Ness would continue to outfit the Eagles through the 1963 season.

The first time that the Mitchell & Ness label appeared on a major league baseball uniform, the Philadelphia Athletics, was in 1938. In the early 1940s, Mitchell & Ness began to supply Philadelphia's other major league baseball team, the Phillies. By the end of the decade, the Mitchell & Ness label was appearing on high school and college team uniforms throughout the Philadelphia area.

In the late 1970s, Mitchell & Ness had dropped the team business to concentrate on its retail operation. The store became a leading outlet for field hockey equipment and ski gear. Mitchell & Ness almost went bankrupt in 1983. Owner Peter Capolino told the Detroit Free Press, "By 1983 all the expansion I had done had gone to hell. I fired 100 people, closed two warehouses. I reduced the company to a little store at 13th and Walnut Streets (in Philadelphia). It was down to just me and my wife."

In 1983, a customer walked into the store and asked if Mitchell & Ness could repair his 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates game-worn vest, and his 1949 St. Louis Browns game-worn shirt. They were both made of wool flannel as all baseball uniforms had been during that era. Mitchell & Ness found that it could do it, and with the realization that Mitchell & Ness was capable of this task, an idea was born: Reproduce historically accurate wool-flannel baseball uniforms. Mitchell & Ness recruited history buffs and sports gurus most notably Capolino's friend Bob Downes. They dug through old newspapers, periodicals, books, programs, and old film footage. They consulted vintage uniform collectors throughout the country and visited the archives at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

Major League Baseball (MLB) teams had stopped wearing wool flannel jerseys by 1972 to wear double-knit polyester jerseys. In a dusty warehouse in North Philadelphia, Mitchell & Ness discovered rolls of old baseball flannel from 50 years earlier. They were still carefully wrapped, untouched, and in like-new condition ready to be cut and sewn. The flannel was sewn. The lettering and patches were recreated and applied. The jerseys were completed, and they were offered for sale. The first shirts sold almost overnight. So did the second batch of a dozen or more. In time, Mitchell & Ness attracted customers from across the United States. Sports Illustrated wrote a flattering piece about Mitchell & Ness in June 1987. The New York Times wrote about the company two years later.

In 1999, Mitchell & Ness expanded into the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA), when it introduced its Hardwood Classics collection of basketball jerseys. Football followed a year later with the Mitchell & Ness Throwback Collection. In 2002, the National Hockey League (NHL) granted Mitchell & Ness rights to remake vintage hockey sweaters.

Mitchell & Ness now has on file every MLB uniform worn since the founding of the original Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869.

In 2007, Adidas purchased Mitchell & Ness in order to get into the retro-apparel style market. On May 29, 2008, the Philadelphia Phillies announced that they had signed Mitchell & Ness as a naming-rights partner of its clothes store at the Phillies' Citizens Bank Park. The Mitchell & Ness Alley Store is in Ashburn Alley beyond left-center field.

On January 24, 2011, the Reading Phillies, AA affiliate of the Phillies announced that they had signed Mitchell & Ness as a naming-rights partner of its apparel store at the R-Phils' FirstEnergy Stadium. On March 23, 2012, Jonathan Yuska was brought on as Head of Mitchell and Ness. In May 2016, Adidas sold Mitchell & Ness to "Juggernaut Capital Partners", a Washington, D.C. based private equity firm.

Owner Peter Capolino reported to Sports Illustrated that Mitchell & Ness had annual sales revenue of $1.5 million per-year in 1998. Revenues rose to $2.2 million in 1999[14] and were $2.8 million in 2000. Sales were more than $5 million in 2001 according to ESPN.com while Capolino reported annual sales of $4.5 million in 2001 to USA Today. Sales rose to $23 million in 2002.





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