Description: Prompted by his father's death, acclaimed sports columnist Terry Pluto has written a touching homage to the baseball team they shared through the years. Our Tribe is both a nostalgic retelling of the stories and legends that Pluto heard from his father about the Indians' past, and a tribute to the ties that bound them together. Highlights include:
-- The glories of the 1948 championship, led by the "big manager" Lou Bondreau; and the shock of 1954, when the winningest team in league history lost the Series in four straight
-- The comically horrible story of the 1899 Cleveland Spiders, the losingest team in Major League history
-- The hard road faced by Larry Doby, the first African-American in the American League -- a stark contrast to the careful planning that brought Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers.

Hailed by Allen Barra in the Chicago Tribune as "perhaps the best American writer of sports books", Pluto not only celebrates baseball and one of its most distinguished teams, but also honors the life force responsible for keeping the sport alive for more than a century: fans like his father -- and himself.

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