The day was October 11, 1948. Harry Truman was running for reelection as President of the United States against some guy named Thomas Dewey (how’d that turn out?), the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II was just six months old, “A Tree in the Meadow” was Margaret Whiting’s No. 1 song on the Billboard charts, and Babe Ruth had been dead less than two months. Oh, and a baseball game was played between the Cleveland Indians and the Boston Braves.
The Tribe did something that day it has never done since: they won the World Series.