Alva Bradley was also the owner of the Cleveland Guardians in the 1940s[1] and helped start what became Case Western Reserve University.
Bradley, inheriting his father's successful shipbuilding company and at one point was one of the largest real estate owners in Cleveland.
[3] Bradley attended the University School of Cleveland and Cornell, along with this brother Charles, who was 20 months younger than Alva, graduating in 1908.
[4] During Bradley's tenure the team signed teenage strikeout king Bob Feller in a controversial move that had to ultimately be resolved by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
During the 1940 season Indian players, led by Mel Harder and Ken Keltner, came to him demanding that he fire team manager Ossie Vitt.