Editing Cleveland Guardians (section)

====Frank Lane becomes general manager====
The Indians hired general manager [[Frank Lane]], known as "Trader" Lane, away from the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in 1957. Lane over the years had gained a reputation as a GM who loved to make deals. With the White Sox, Lane had made over 100 trades involving over 400 players in seven years.<ref name="Cards">{{cite book | last1 = Eisenbath | first1 = Mike | first2 = Stan | last2 = Musial | title = The Cardinals Encyclopedia | publisher = Temple University Press | year = 1999 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hymGG28xYcoC&pg=PA410 | isbn = 1-56639-703-0 | access-date = November 19, 2015 | archive-date = December 14, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201214154310/https://books.google.com/books?id=hymGG28xYcoC&pg=PA410 | url-status = live }}</ref> In a short stint in St. Louis, he traded away [[Red Schoendienst]] and [[Harvey Haddix]].<ref name=Cards/> Lane summed up his philosophy when he said that the only deals he regretted were the ones that he did not make.<ref>{{cite book | last = Schneider | first = Russell | title = Tales from the Tribe Dugout | publisher = Sports Publishing LLC | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCNvizFvLy0C&pg=PA100 | isbn = 1-58261-303-6 | access-date = November 19, 2015 | archive-date = December 14, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201214154317/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZCNvizFvLy0C&pg=PA100 | url-status = live }}</ref>

One of Lane's early trades in Cleveland was to send [[Roger Maris]] to the [[History of the Kansas City Athletics|Kansas City Athletics]] in the middle of 1958. Indians executive [[Hank Greenberg]] was not happy about the trade<ref name="Maris">{{cite book | last = Rosenfeld | first = Harvey | title = Still a Legend: The Story of Roger Maris | publisher = iUniverse | year = 2002 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LIQLHXQrAssC&pg=PA44 | isbn = 0-595-24615-X | access-date = November 19, 2015 | archive-date = December 14, 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201214154344/https://books.google.com/books?id=LIQLHXQrAssC&pg=PA44 | url-status = live }}</ref> and neither was Maris, who said that he could not stand Lane.<ref name=Maris/> After Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record, Lane defended himself by saying he still would have done the deal because Maris was unknown and he received good ballplayers in exchange.<ref name=Maris/>

After the Maris trade, Lane acquired 25-year-old [[Norm Cash]] from the White Sox for [[Minnie Miñoso]] and then traded him to Detroit before he ever played a game for the Indians; Cash went on to hit over 350 home runs for the Tigers. The Indians received [[Steve Demeter]] in the deal, who had only five at-bats for Cleveland.<ref>{{cite news | last = Dow | first = Bill | title = Former Tiger Norm Cash | work = Baseball Digest | url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_9_60/ai_76928886 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120710070550/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_9_60/ai_76928886 | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 10, 2012 |date=September 2001 | access-date = August 11, 2006 }}</ref>