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PublisherFlatiron Books
ISBN-101250313791
ISBN-139781250313799
eBay Product ID (ePID)11038845579
Product Key Features
Book TitleOur Team : the Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicBaseball / History, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Social Science, History
AuthorLuke Epplin
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-047458
Reviews"Epplin has a journalist's eye for narrative and gives a dramatic account of the season and the series." --Wall Street Journal "If you love baseball, Our Team is a three-run walk-off homer in Game 7 of the World Series. And if you care about justice, Epplin's book is a crucial lesson in the fight for civil rights in post-World War II Cleveland." --Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator from Ohio and author of Desk 88 "One of the most entertaining and important baseball books to come out in years. OUR TEAM's Cleveland Indians of 1948 finally get the respect, the insight -- the historical attention -- they deserve. Think you know about baseball's integration years? On the heels of Jackie Robinson's breakthrough came another team beset with perhaps even more challenges and half the publicity. Luke Epplin brings all the drama, the strife, the unity and the ultimate triumph to you -- with the flair of a Satchel Paige windup, the power of a Larry Doby swing, and the panache of a Bill Veeck promotion!" --Laurie Gwen Shapiro "From sandlots to stadiums, Luke Epplin generously offers up the best seat in the stands to revisit when both America and its greatest pastime were changing. Even as the color line impacted the best Black players' access and opportunities, Our Team is a riveting reminder of the unifying power of sports--and the compelling men who sought to change America one game at a time." --Caseen Gaines, author of Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way, "If you love baseball, Our Team is a three-run walk-off homer in Game 7 of the World Series. And if you care about justice, Epplin's book is a crucial lesson in the fight for civil rights in post-World War II Cleveland." --Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senator from Ohio and author of Desk 88 "One of the most entertaining and important baseball books to come out in years. OUR TEAM's Cleveland Indians of 1948 finally get the respect, the insight -- the historical attention -- they deserve. Think you know about baseball's integration years? On the heels of Jackie Robinson's breakthrough came another team beset with perhaps even more challenges and half the publicity. Luke Epplin brings all the drama, the strife, the unity and the ultimate triumph to you -- with the flair of a Satchel Paige windup, the power of a Larry Doby swing, and the panache of a Bill Veeck promotion!" --Laurie Gwen Shapiro "From sandlots to stadiums, Luke Epplin generously offers up the best seat in the stands to revisit when both America and its greatest pastime were changing. Even as the color line impacted the best Black players' access and opportunities, Our Team is a riveting reminder of the unifying power of sports--and the compelling men who sought to change America one game at a time." --Caseen Gaines, author of Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
SynopsisThe riveting story of four men -- Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige -- whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond. In July 1947, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby would follow in his footsteps on the Cleveland Indians. Though Doby, as the second Black player in the majors, would struggle during his first summer in Cleveland, his subsequent turnaround in 1948 from benchwarmer to superstar sparked one of the wildest and most meaningful seasons in baseball history. In intimate, absorbing detail, Luke Epplin's Our Team traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby, a soft-spoken, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige, a legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues whose belated entry into the majors whipped baseball fans across the country into a frenzy. Together, as the backbone of a team that epitomized the postwar American spirit in all its hopes and contradictions, these four men would captivate the nation by storming to the World Series--all the while rewriting the rules of what was possible in sports., An exciting and too-little-known baseball story, the tale of the first team with African American players to win the World Series The integration of baseball is justly remembered through the prism of Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yet there is a triumphant, and pivotal, narrative from those fraught years that has long been overlooked: the story of the 1948 Cleveland Indians. This team featured two black players, Larry Doby and Satchel Paige, and in only the second year of integrated baseball, they won a championship. These two men represent different facets of the African American experience. Doby, a young WWII veteran whose parents had been part the Great Migration, integrated the American League only eleven weeks after Robinson. He suffered the same indignities (as he recalled, "Nobody said we're going to be nice to the second black"), but never received the aura of legend that could come only from being first. Paige meanwhile was a legend in his own time, an Alabama gardener's son who became the greatest pitcher in Negro League history. When signed by the Indians to help lead them to the playoffs, he was forty-two, the oldest rookie ever. These two compelling figures are at the center of a baseball story that also includes the owner of the Indians, Bill Veeck, the most colorful owner in baseball, and the Hall of Fame pitcher (and complicated human) Bob Feller. For readers of David Halberstam, Bill James, and Roger Angell, here is a new baseball classic.
LC Classification NumberGV875.C7E77 2021
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- 31. Aug. 2021
Great title. Cleveland has not won the World Series again.
What a great book. This is more than just a book about baseball. This is a book about America, social injustice, celebrating diversity, and the power of team work and understanding.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 27. Mai. 2022
Our Team was a great book on race relations and sports.
Great book, thank youBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
