Could "Sock" have once literally "stolen" a 1-0 victory for his team
by being walked, and then swiping second, third and home on three
consecutive pitches?!

Did his father, Francis, tribal governor of the Penobscots from
1895-1896, make a Herculean canoe trip down the Penobscot River, down the
Atlantic Ocean, to Washington, D.C. to find President Cleveland and get
Cleveland's help to prevent his son from leaving the reservation to play
baseball at Holy Cross College?!
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Did Sockalexis, at Holy Cross, once make a "lightning throw," a
throw so far and accurate that two Harvard professors measured the distance
and declared it a world's throwing record?... Could he have once stolen six
bases in one game, running both for himself and an injured
teammate?... Could he smash home runs so far against Brown University that
these titanic blows smashed chapel and dormitory windows on campus?... Did
he once swim across a creek to make a catch?!

Could Sockalexis's mere presence, and the sensation it caused,
have inspired the change of the Cleveland major league team's nickname
from "the Spiders" (in place since 1889) to "the Indians" in 1897?
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Can we determine that Sockalexis would have been "one of the
greats of the game," as claimed by several stars of the era like Hall of
Famers Hughie Jennings and John McGraw, by looking at a game-by-
game study of his daily play with Cleveland, as compiled by Richard
"Dixie" Tourangeau, member of the Society for American Baseball
Research and author of "Play Ball!" calendars?

What is the one very obvious revenge factor (that no writer on
Sockalexis has ever uncovered!) that might explain why Amos Rusie,
the greatest and most feared pitcher of his day, so hotly issued the
claim that "I'll strike the damned Indian out" when he was to face
Sockalexis at the Polo Grounds in New York...and then issued
Sockalexis's most famous home run on the very first pitch?!
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Does James Madison Toy truly deserve the title of "first Native
American to play major league baseball"? In the early 1960s
Baseball Hall of Fame historian Lee Allen stripped Sockalexis of the
title and anointed Toy, but read the evidence Allen based his
decision upon and see if YOU feel Allen's decree is justifiable.

The controversy continues to this day in Cleveland: Did a fan
contest in 1915, with a fan writing specifically about wishing to
honor Sockalexis, lead to the formal adoption of the nickname
"Indians" for the Cleveland major league team? Delving into a
mystery, that will probably never be solved, involving a biographer
named Franklin Lewis, and unraveling a misconception about the
process used to select the name, this book's author proves, once and
for, that Sockalexis forever deserves the honor of being the
inspiration for the nickname and was, at the very least, specifically
remembered in 1915 when the nickname was officially adopted!