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Please join us at 5:00-6:00PM on Tuesday, November 30 for a virtual meeting with author Luke Epplin discussing his new book Our Team about the 1948 Indians and their improbable run to baseball’s championship.

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Our Team’s subtitle is The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball. Epplin’s four men are Satchel Paige, Bob Feller, Larry Doby and Bill Veeck.

Recovering from World War II, taking baby steps with racial integration, the nation looked to baseball for entertainment but got plenty of life’s lessons as well as amusements. Paige was a legend of the Negro Leagues, freshly signed by the Indians and already 42 years old. Feller had been a teenage prodigy from the cornfields of Iowa who resigned baseball for the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor. Doby was a soft-spoken racial pioneer who recovered from a disappointing rookie year to stardom during the Indians’ run for the pennant. Veeck was the most flamboyant and imaginative owner/manager in baseball.

Luke Epplin grew up in rural Illinois and now lives in New York City. He has written for the New Yorker and the Atlantic. None other than recent Club speaker Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown wrote a cover blurb for Our Team: “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.”

Please join us on November 30 for what will prove to be an educational and inspirational hour.