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The Cleveland 50: The Jacobs Brothers Buy the Indians
Three years ahead of the release of Major League, the Jacobs brothers purchased the underdog team in a deal that changed everything and gave us "The Jake."
by Vince Guerrieri | Mar. 29, 2022 | 12:00 PM
David and Richard Jacobs purchased the underdog Cleveland Indians, whose decades of up-and-down struggles were later immortalized in 1989’s Major League. The brothers launched a period of rebuilding that included the construction of Jacobs Field, forever known to locals as "The Jake."
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Vince Guerrieri
Vince Guerrieri is a sportswriter who's gone straight. He's written for Cleveland Magazine since 2014, and his work has also appeared in publications including Popular Mechanics, POLITICO, Smithsonian, CityLab and Defector.
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