Cleveland Vintage Blog

Is it possible for someone’s tale to be both inspirational and tragic at the same time? The short answer is, of course, yes; history is full of many such examples. And to Cleveland baseball fans, Ray Chapman fits this bill. Chapman was a shortstop who started his career in 1912 with the then-Cleveland Naps. By all accounts, Chapman was an excellent defensive player, a well-above-average hitter and considered the best bunter in the game at the time. To back up that statement is the fact that to this day Chapman holds the single-season record for sacrifice bunts in a season at...

Humanity has finally returned to the Moon, and Northeast Ohio played a major role in making it happen. The Artemis II mission marked the first time anyone has been back to the Moon since Gene Cernan last walked on it in December 1972. Similar to the Apollo 8 mission, Artemis II orbited the moon as a demonstration of the Orion capsule capabilities, an integral first step to eventually landing back on the surface. The Glenn Research Center and its nearby locations served a vital role in the buildup to this point. The Orion spacecraft was tested in the Space Environments Chamber...

Like any region in the United States, the people of the Midwest have their own language, a subset of slang and sayings that tell anybody, "Oh yeah, this person's definitely from the Midwest." Here is a look at 50+ of those phrases and sayings you might find while traversing around the Midwest. Getting a Midwesterner Excited If you rile up a Midwesterner one way or another, you're liable to hear one of these phrases: Ope! Uff da! For cryin' out loud Cheese and rice / Cheese and mice Oh, for cute! / Oh for fun!  Heavens to Betsy! / Jeez...

The time was the 1820s, when a terrible potato famine struck Ireland and the Irish population in Cleveland began to grow significantly, with many making the area surrounding the Cuyahoga River home. By no means was the initial surge to Cleveland overwhelming, with the numbers of Irish immigrants settling at around 500 by 1826, which led to the establishment of the first Catholic priest to serve the growing Irish population. The overall push to Cleveland of Irish families because of the Great Famine back home continued into the 1840s, with overall numbers swelling to well over 8,000 by the 1930s....

Whether you're begging for aliens to finally pay you a visit and take you with them or you're petrified at the thought of being abducted, you now have some odds to consider. A recent report analyzed more than 4,000 abduction reports in Ohio ranging from 2019 to 2024, which means that Ohioans have about a one in 89 chance of reporting an alien abduction (this boils down to one alien abduction for every 11,300 residents; Ohio has about 12 million people total).  Those figures put Ohio right in the middle of the pack in terms of states with the most...