A easy hug helped helped break down the colour barrier in baseball, and the story has a giant native angle.
One Detroit did a segment about Steve Gromek of Hamtramck, and Larry Doby, the second African American within the MLB, and the way their second collectively despatched shockwaves by way of not solely Detroit — however a lot of the nation.
Our podcast co-host Fletcher Sharpe was a part of the piece, too. Have a watch.
