From Ohio15 Apr 2022

10: Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball

April 15, 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking through Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Weeks later — less celebrated, but perhaps as transformative — a young, soft-spoken Larry Doby became the first Black American League player, as he joined the Cleveland Indians. Unlike Robinson, Doby had no minor league easing-in season. In the Negro leagues one day — suited up for Cleveland the next. It was a lonely and harsh entry but one that would forever change the game of baseball.
Joining Doby the following summer was Negro League superstar pitcher and fan favorite, the crafty and mercurial Satchel Page. They, along with the All American entrepreneurial pitching phenom Bob Feller and innovative, passionate and indefatigable owner Bill Veeck, became Cleveland’s interracial “Fab Four” in a time of prejudice and segregation.
Set against a booming and bustling industrial Cleveland, Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball is the tale of how the unlikely confluence of these four narratives formed a once-in-a-lifetime alchemy that uprooted the traditions of the Major Leagues and moved it into the modern day, while delivering the one and only World Series pennant for Indians in 1948.
I am honored to say the story of "Our Team" is from Ohio and am privileged to welcome its author Luke Epplin.

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Episoder(18)

18: Eric Carmen - featuring Stephen Knill & Lou Gramm

Eric Carmen was a power-pop, singer-songwriter phenom. A musical prodigy, at age 13 he attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied violin among other instruments. Seeing the Beatles on...

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17: Al Bright

Al Bright was an acclaimed artist and renowned educator. In 1965, he became the first full-time Black facility member at his alma mater - Youngstown State University, where he taught art and establis...

25 Feb 202420min

16: Irving Lev

On October 12, 1922 Youngstown, Ohio welcomed its newest citizen, Irving Lev. Born to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, he came of age during the Great Depression and went on to serve his country fl...

21 Jun 202316min

15: Sweet Memories Vintage Tees and Candy

Memorial Day Weekend — and the first sound and sighting of the iconic neighborhood ice cream truck surly declare summers arrival. But did you know the latter is owed to Youngstown?! This episodes’ gue...

25 Mai 202313min

14: Emily Fedner

Former line cook Emily Fedner started her Food Lovers Diary Instagram while a student at Ohio State. It has since blossomed to over 135 thousand followers and catapulted her to the forefront of foodie...

28 Mar 202317min

13: Cameron Granger & Jacob Mason-Macklin

Artists Cameron Granger, 29, and Jacob Mason-Macklin, 27, first met while attending Columbus College of Art and Design. The two came up together in the local art scene, exhibiting in the same gallerie...

19 Jan 202318min

12: Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini

American folk heroes are not of their own choosing. Just ask Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini. As a former World Boxing Association champion, film producer and a native son of Youngstown, Ohio, Mancini shrugs...

17 Aug 202223min

11: From Cleveland For Cleveland

Actor and producer Lili Reinhart (Chemical Hearts and CW’s Riverdale) leads off From Cleveland For Cleveland, a six-part monthly conversation series (July - December) bringing Hollywood talent back to...

13 Jul 202220min