Cleveland Indians name....is this true??

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Just doing a quick Google search I come up with this: http://webpages.charter.net/joekuras/bhxi3d.htm>

I believe I first heard that Chief Zimmer was not a Native American Indian when I read about the Zimmer baseball game which was patented by Chief Zimmer.

Chief Johnson was indeed a Native American. He was of the Winnebego tribe from Nebraska. He pitched for the Nebraska Indians and is the only fulltime NI player to play in the Major leagues - Sam Crawford played a couple of games for the NI, but was not a regular.