Cleveland Bearcats

Cleveland Bearcats
Minor league affiliations
Previous classesDouble-A (1914–15)
Previous leagues
American Association (1914–15)
Major league affiliations
Previous teamsunaffiliated (1914–15)
Minor league titles
League titles none
Team data
Previous names
  • Cleveland Spiders (1915)
  • Cleveland Bearcats (1914)
Previous parks
League Park (1914–15)

The Cleveland Bearcats were an American professional Minor League Baseball team that played in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 and 1915 as members of the American Association. They shared League Park with the American League's Cleveland Naps. After the 1913 season, Charles Somers, owner of the Toledo Mud Hens and Cleveland Naps, relocated the Toledo team to Cleveland. The team played the 1914 season as the Cleveland Bearcats but became the Cleveland Spiders in 1915. The team moved back to Toledo in 1916.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Cleveland, Ohio Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
  2. ^ "2019 Toledo Mud Hens Media Guide" (PDF). Toledo Mud Hens. Minor League Baseball. p. 45. Retrieved October 15, 2019.