Integrating Cleveland Baseball with Stephanie Liscio
When: Wed., April 22, 7 p.m. 2015
Did you know the Cleveland Buckeyes were the first Negro League team to integrate in 1946? Or that Larry Doby joined the Cleveland Indians and integrated the American League just weeks after Jackie Robinson did the same for the National League? Learn about the historic roles athletes in the “Buckeye State” played in the integration of professional baseball with Stephanie Liscio, author of It’s Pronounced Lajaway and president of the Cleveland chapter of SABR.