Our Team

The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball

De: Luke Epplin

Narrado por: Leon Nixon

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, 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

"Epplin’s epic saga is simultaneously a riveting drama and a searing portrait of the racism that plagued baseball for decades. This sharp and well-documented history will be a hit with baseball lovers and general interest readers alike." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

©2021 Luke Epplin (P)2021 Macmillan Audio

Cleveland Halcyon

Great rememberances!! I was there. It was thrill to relive the moments of that notable year,

Needs a “baseball” narrator

I found the voice of the narrator made the story very hard to follow. There were way too many dramatic inflections given to words that are not so dramatic in the course of baseball story-telling. This made it hard to follow the storyline, given the statistical picture sometimes painted. I would much prefer hearing from a broadcaster or player…someone who lives and communicates baseball. I heard Luke Epplin himself speak, and he would have been excellent! I will buy the printed book and read it myself.

Remarkable baseball book

I'm a longtime fan of the Cleveland Indians but this book took it to a new level with inside stories about the 48 team and how important it was for the indians, for baseball, and the nation as a whole. Cleveland paid a big part in integration that year and later in 1975 at the 1st African American manager as well. Bill vec is a legendary Figure in his own right as well. What an amazing book.

My favorite book on sports ever

Luke Epplin wrote a book on more than just a baseball season, or baseball or sports. It's a brilliant weaving of the intersecting lives of four individuals whose experiences and personalities were both different and similar. Leon Nixon narrates with a heart and soul that expresses excitement, pathos and happiness in all in the right places.

Cleveland Baseball History

Great details presented objectively. Really enjoyable listen for someone who wants to learn more about Cleveland baseball history.