Sat 7/15 @ noon-1PM
This month, the Baseball Heritage Museum is honoring Larry Doby, the second African-American player to join baseball’s major leagues after Jackie Robinson and the first to play in the American League — with the Cleveland Indians. He was part of the last Indians team to win the World Series in 1948 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.
Today the museum is hosting a discussion of two books about Doby — Larry Doby: The Struggle of the American League’s First Black Player by Joseph Thomas Moore and Greatness in the Shadows: Larry Doby and the Integration of the American League by Douglas M. Branson — exploring how each approaches telling Doby’s story.
It’s free and open to the public. You can register here, although it’s not required. Go to Mac’s Backs on Coventry and mention the museum, and you can buy the books at a 20% discount.