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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 11 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...

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Flatiron Books
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english
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CID , CID Blake2b
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