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The [[wikipedia: American Greetings|American Greetings]] greeting card company has been based in the city for well over a century. During the 1960s, American Greetings employed a group of young artists, some of which became pioneers in the underground comic genre, most notably [[Robert Crumb]] ([[Fritz the Cat (comics)|Fritz the Cat]]) and [[wikipedia: Harvey Pekar|Harvey Pekar]] ([[American Splendor]]). In contrast, the company would develop greeting card characters [[Ziggy]], [[Strawberry Shortcake]] and the [[Care Bears]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s, all three of which would become licensing powerhouses.
Its baseball and basketball teams--the Indians and Cavaliers respectively--are fairly solid, although the Indians have currently gone more than 60 years without winning the World Series, longer than any other team in the American League and longer than any Major League Baseball team that hasn't been [[The Windy City|cursed by a goat-owning bartender]], and the Cavs lost its star player; ESPN had an hour-long special dedicated to his announcement. But [[All Just a Dream|said star player returned to the Cavs]] four years later, [[And
The city was named for surveyor Moses Cleaveland (the first 'A' was reportedly dropped so the name would fit on a newspaper masthead) and has no connection to [[Oop North|the English county of Cleveland]], or the [[Grover Cleveland|22nd and 24th President of the United States]] (who was only distantly related to Moses Cleaveland).
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{{examples|Celebrities from Cleveland and the surrounding area:}}
* LeBron James (basketball player once worshiped for making the Cavs a respected team, then was hated with a violent passion for moving to Miami and making a huge media event out of announcing The Decision, only [[All Just a Dream|to return to the Cavaliers]] four years later [[And
* [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]]
* Mark Foster (lead singer of [[Foster the People]], who spent his formative years in Cleveland)
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