CANTON – Reading the newest book by Canton sports history author Roger Gordon – "Cleveland Guardians A-Z" is the third in a set of alphabet histories about Cleveland sports teams – seems an appropriate offseason activity for northeast Ohio lovers of baseball.

Read it. Learn from it. Discuss the facts on its pages with others until the gates to Progressive Field swing open next season for Guardians fans.

"It's the completion of my trilogy," said Gordon, who also wrote "Cleveland Browns A-Z" and "Cleveland Cavaliers A-Z." In total, Gordon has 14 books to his credit, 13 on sports history plus one recently published humor book, "And Then There Was the Time."

Gordon's baseball book uses the alphabet to share the history of the Guardians from the late John Adams, who played the bass drum in

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