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Tony was born and raised in Northeast Ohio and has lived here all 37+ years of his life. Growing up he had always been a Cleveland sports fan, but he grew up with a passion for baseball since he was 5-years old. Since the turn of the century that passion for baseball has permeated the minor league baseball scene where with the numerous affiliates and future players of the Indians to follow, minor league...
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Jim Pete was born and bred in the great city of Cleveland, and has lived on and off in the Forest City his whole life. He is currently residing in Raleigh, NC, only 30 minutes away from the Carolina Mudcats. The Cleveland Indians just happen to be his sporting passion, coming in a not-so-close second to his wife, son and daughter, even though rooting for the Indians has been akin to walking on broken...
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Brian La Shier grew up a perpetually displaced Tribe fan, but spent enough summers in Northeast Ohio to know the difference between Bertman and Stadium mustard. After graduating from James Madison University, he eventually landed in Washington, DC. Brian tends to view the game through a sabermetric lens and follows front office activity as avidly as the daily box scores. He has been covering Cleveland...
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Charlie Adams grew up in Columbus, OH and has been a fan of the Indians dating back to before Jim Thome moved from third to first. As more and more statistics have been developed to evaluate players over the years, he has become increasingly interested in the idea of player valuation and front-office strategy. Though he is tired of looking forward to "next year" he is interested in the long-term success...
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Jeff was born and raised in Akron until he fled to Columbus to get his degree from the Ohio StateUniversity. Jeff first started internet writing back then, mostly focusing on the NFL and specifically the NFL draft; for all he knows his old Tripod site might still exist out there some where. A little over two years ago Jeff found this site by cruising John Sickel’s site and reading the comments....
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Jim Piascik is 21 years old and currently a student at Kent State University, where he is studying to be a History/Math teacher. He will be keeping score for Baseball Info Solutions at Akron Aeros games for the third year this summer, where he gets to fulfill one of his goals of getting paid to watch baseball games. When he isn't writing, studying or watching baseball games, Jim is either coaching...
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Adam McGavin was born and raised in Northeast Ohio. A native of Canton, OH, Adam is a 2012 graduate of Kent State University with a BA in English and a Writing minor. He is a red-blooded Cleveland sports fan, with some of his earliest memories involving flipping through binders of hundreds of (now lost) baseball cards and attending minor league games (way back in the day when the AA affiliate was the...
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Andrew was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and currently resides in Struthers, Ohio. He is a secondary education major at Youngstown State University with a minor in political science. Andrew has been a life-long Cleveland Indians fan, growing up watching the double play duo of Omar Vizquel and Roberto Alomar. He considers Vizquel his second favorite player of all-time, next to Bob Feller.
In his...
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Andy Nichols is a 22-year-old Communications student at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and a lifelong Indians fan. He has a passion for Indians baseball, from the Major League squad, all the way down to the low levels of the Minors. Growing up in the 90s, Andy remembers watching the glory days of the Indians. Some of his favorite players were David Justice and Charles Nagy, but his all-time favorite...
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Greg can still hear “lets go Candiotti” ringing in his years from the little league teammate sitting next to him. We were at old Municipal Stadium to see the Tribe take on the Oakland A’s and their larger than life “Bash Brothers.” Although history has not been kind to the reputations of Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, the Indians history, after the late 80s, became a whole...
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Jason Ruggiero is a graduate of Edinboro University and a lifelong Indians fan. He attended his first Tribe game in the waning days of the old stadium and was brought up during the "Era of Champions". As a result, he is forever scarred by images of Craig Counsell and Jose Mesa. He currently lives in northwest PA where he teaches high school social studies along with coaching basketball and baseball...
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Jim is a 21-year-old journalism student at Cleveland State University, hoping to become a sportswriter/reporter in the near future. Ever since he could remember, Jim always loved and followed Cleveland Indians baseball. Growing up, he would always surprise his family and friends knowing most of the players on the Tribe. It was not hard to figure out Jim was an Indians fan, as he would always wear his...
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Kevin is a 24-year-old Cleveland native. Throughout the season, he covers both the Indians and Columbus Clippers for the IPI, and also maintains a corresponding Twitter account year-round (@KevinIPI).
He can be reached by email at kdean@indiansprospectinsider.com.
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Lianna is a 2009 graduate of Notre Dame College, with a degree in Sports Management and a minor in Graphic Communications. She played four years of fast pitch softball for NDC from 2006 to 2009, and was the starting first baseman for the team that placed 5th at the National Tournament in 2009.
Lianna is currently an assistant softball coach at Ursuline College, as well as a photography intern...
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Michael made his rounds through the Indians blogosphere before currently finding a home editing video for IPI. Initially spurred to action by the name change of what he still likes to call "Jacobs Field", Michael began voicing his knowledge of the game following the 2007 season. He has been a writer on several websites that has included BleacherReport.com, Seamheads.com, MVN.com, BaseballDigest.com,...
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Sean Mahon may be the biggest Cleveland Indians fan in the world... that hasn't actually lived in Cleveland. Though a Chicago native, Sean has been an Indians die hard since birth thanks in part to his father's lineage and relatives currently residing in Northeast Ohio. As a student at Marquette University, he frequently dons Tribe wear throughout the Cheese State, consistently stays up late to catch...
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Steve Orbanek graduated from Duquesne University in May 2010 with a bachelor's degree in print journalism. While at Duquesne, he spent two years as Sports Editor of the campus newspaper, The Duquesne Duke. Steve also recently earned his master's degree in Communications from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
Steve's first book, General McLane Athletics: Stories From the First 50...
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Andrew is a third-year journalism student at The Ohio State University in Columbus. He is a senior sports reporter for The Lantern, the student newspaper at OSU. Andrew has covered everything from Buckeye football to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament to the Frozen Diamond Faceoff at Progressive Field. He is originally from Washington, D.C., and has had a love for baseball since childhood. To reach...
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Arthur is a lifelong Clevelander, Indians fan, and statistics nut. Arthur revels in the minutiae of sport that others may find dreary. Stats, transactions, attempting to decipher an everyday lineup amidst the Tribe organization's plethora of platoons; Arthur is ready and willing to dive headfirst into it. Besides numbers, Arthur also has an irrational obsession with the seemingly meaningless. Fall...
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Brandon is a double major in political science and criminology with a minor in forensics at North Carolina State University. He grew up and still resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has grown up around baseball starting from an early age and his passion for the sport has only grown since the first time he touched a little league diamond.
Since he lives in Raleigh, with no major league team...
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Christian Turner is an avid sports fan and public relations major at The University of Akron.
She grew up a super fan of Omar Vizquel in the 1990’s and decided one day she too would play for the Cleveland Indians. After realizing that just wasn’t going to happen, she opted that marrying Omar would be a better fit. After years of no proposal, she decided that just writing about baseball...
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Jordan is from Los Angeles, where he has lived for the duration of his lifetime. His entire life has been surrounded by baseball since he picked up his first glove at age 7. Jordan has been lucky enough to be apart of some amazing teams in his playing career such as the Oakland Athletics scout ball team, Team USA in the Maccabiah games where he won a gold medal, and for a short period of time he got...
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Nathan was born in Mansfield, Ohio but moved to Akron in 2008 to attend The University of Akron where he studies English. Growing up, he was always a baseball fan and even asked his dad to build a full-sized, chain link backstop in the backyard (it never happened).
Nathan has served as copy chief and news editor for The Buchtelite, the independent newspaper of The University of Akron. Additionally,...
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Hailing from Mansfield, Ohio, Stephanie Metzger is an undergrad at Cleveland State University double-majoring in Journalism and Public Relations. She has interned with ESPN Cleveland-WKNR and is a contributing writer for various local sports sites.
As a lifetime Ohioan, Stephanie has developed a concrete devotion to her state’s sports teams, regardless of their less-than-successful reputations....
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