» June 23, 1950: Luke Easter has his 2nd consecutive 2-home run day to lead the Indians to a 13–4 trouncing of the Senators. Easter had two yesterday in a win over New York. Al Rosen adds a single, double, and triple to back Bob Lemon's pitching.

» July 28, 1950: The Indians' Larry Doby, Al Rosen, and Luke Easter connect for consecutive home runs in the 3rd in a 13–1 whipping of the Red Sox.

» August 14, 1950: Before 60,120, the Indians turn back the Tigers, 3–2, in 10 innings, and reduce Detroit's first-place advantage to two 1/2 games. Al Rosen had tied the game in the ninth with a 2-out HR. RF Bob Kennedy helps the Tribe's cause by starting a triple play from the outfield, recalling Tribe LF Charlie Jamieson's two triple plays of 1928.

» August 11, 1951: Behind the four-hit pitching of Early Wynn, the Indians defeat the White Sox 2–1 in front of a Ladies Night crowd of 70,119. Wynn's homer in the 7th gives the Tribe (68-39) and negates 2nd-inning homers by Eddie Robinson and Al Rosen. It's the Tribes 9th straight win to stay deadlocked with the Yankees for first place. Loser Joe Dobson, who has beaten Wynn twice this year, gives up just six hits.

» August 15, 1951: Al Rosen belts a first inning grand slam to jump start the Indians to a 9–4 win over the Browns, their 13th in a row. For Rosen, it is his 4th slam of the year, just the 9th player to accomplish the feat. Ned Garver gives up seven runs in the first inning in losing to Early Wynn.

» September 2, 1951: The Cleveland Indians Harry Simpson, Al Rosen and Luke Easter hit consecutive home runs in the first inning, as Cleveland beats the Browns 5–1.

» April 29, 1952: Cleveland OF "Big Jim" Fridley goes 6-for-6 in a 21-9 romp over the Philadelphia A's. Al Rosen chips in with 3 HRs and 7 RBI, as both teams total 43 hits.

» July 15, 1952: The Indian power hitters dazzle the Yankees with a triple steal in the first inning as Al Rosen scores, Larry Doby goes to third, and Luke Easter, in his only major-league theft, goes to second.

» September 27, 1953: Washington's Mickey Vernon goes into the last game of the season still fighting for the batting title with Cleveland's Al Rosen. Near the end of the game Vernon is hitting .337 when word arrives that Rosen's game is over and Vernon is ahead by .0011 points. The possibility of Vernon coming up to bat again and maybe losing a point is scotched when his teammates contrive to make an out to end the game.

» November 27, 1953: Indians 3B Al Rosen is unanimously named the American League's MVP with a record 336 votes. In the National League, Dodger C Roy Campanella is named MVP.

» April 21, 1954: In the first night game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, Bob Turley has a no-hitter against Cleveland when, with one out in the 9th, Al Rosen singles and Larry Doby homers. Turley strikes out 14, but loses, 2–1.

» July 13, 1954: In the All-Star Game, the AL breaks the NL's 4-game winning streak with an 11-9 win. Larry Doby's pinch HR in the eighth, followed by Nellie Fox's 2-run single, ends the highest scoring All-Star Game in history. The two teams combine for 31 hits, with the AL amassing 17. The Indians Al Rosen has two HRs and 5 RBIs.

» May 5, 1956: Despite a near-record strikeout performance by Don Ferrarese, the Indians beat the Orioles, 2–1. Ferrarese, making his first ML start after relieving for two years, fans 13. The Indians are hitless until Al Rosen homers in the 5th.

» October 27, 1980: In a shocking announcement, Astros owner John McMullen fires president and GM Tal Smith, replacing him with Al Rosen, former GM of the Yankees. Smith will soon be named ML Executive of the Year. The move prompts a rebellion among the Astros 20 limited owners (who together own over 60 percent of the club), and on November 24th McMullen will give up his sole authority to run the club, accepting a position on the club's newly formed executive committee instead.

» November 3, 1987: Oakland 1B Mark McGwire wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award, now called the Jackie Robinson Award, joining Carlton Fisk (1972) as the only player to win that league's award unanimously. McGwire set a rookie record with 49 homers and was the first rookie to lead the majors in homers since Al Rosen in 1950.

» September 8, 1996: In the Indians DH split with the Mariners, Jim Thome knocks in his 100th run in opener, a 15–4 win. Thome reaches the 30 homer, 100 runs, 100 runs, 100 walks—just the 2nd Indian to ever do that. Al Rosen in 1950 was the other. Charles Nagy (15-4) wins game 1, while the M's prevail 6–5 in the nitecap.