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03920aam a22006258i 4500 001 013335CA99C211EBB5A91D6626ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210410010007 008 201117t20212021nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020047458 020 $a 1250313791 020 $a 9781250313799 035 $a (OCoLC)1224041676 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d KYC $d IK2 $d ABJ $d TCH $d MOF $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV875.C7 $b E77 2021 082 00 $a 796.357/640977132 $2 23 100 1 $a Epplin, Luke, $e author. 245 10 $a Our team : $b the epic story of four men and the World Series that changed baseball / $c Luke Epplin. 246 30 $a Epic story of four men and the World Series that changed baseball 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Flatiron Books, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a The 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, 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-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Cleveland Indians (Baseball team) $x History. 600 10 $a Doby, Larry. 600 10 $a Veeck, Bill. 600 10 $a Feller, Bob, $d 1918-2010. 600 10 $a Paige, Satchel, $d 1906-1982. 611 20 $a World Series (Baseball) $d (1948) 650 0 $a Baseball players $v Biography. 941 $a 19 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710053814.0 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626012705.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020338.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012024111.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021612.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063532.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317024128.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20211020011026.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20210803015608.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20210724010444.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20210723014624.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064154.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20210602012035.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210602011442.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20210504015600.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20210504013508.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20210504010322.0 952 $l ZVPB675 $d 20210415101813.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210410010053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=013335CA99C211EBB5A91D6626ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search