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Micah Cummings News Reporting COM 2100 News Story #2 Interview Q-and-A Diehard Chicago Cubs & Cleveland Indians fan
Baseball is a national past time for Americans across the country. This year the Chicago Cubs made history and came back from a three to one deficit to beat the Cleveland Indians and they won their first World Series since 1908.
Emmett Rucker a man living in the golden years of his life raised in between Chicago and Detroit who now resides in Chicago grew up loving baseball. Emmett’s two favorite teams are the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs.
Question: What made you become such a fan of the Cubs and Indians?
Answer: I’ve been a Cleveland Indians fan for sixty-two years. In Detroit back in 1954 and 1955 Tigers only saw American League teams and the National League teams didn't come to Detroit. So I was a Cleveland fan because they had black players. We could pick up the Chicago station in Detroit or the Cleveland station in Detroit. These stations were clearer than some Detroit stations. So we pulled for the Cleveland Indians who we could hear on the radio and we pulled for the Chicago Cubs because both teams had black players Detroit didn’t. That is why I was a Cubs fan and Indians fan and not a Tigers fan because we weren’t allowed to go to any games with the Tigers unless black players came to the park on the other team.
Q: When did you start watching baseball?
A: When I was about eight years old so that would’ve been in 1952.
Q: Who is one of your favorite players on the team right now?
A: Addison Russell
Q: What are some of his strengths that make you like him as a player?
A: He’s able to get hits in the clutch he doesn't really hit that good but when runners are on base and you need him he comes through. Besides that he’s one of the best shortstops that I have seen in my lifetime as far as fielding the ball.
Q: What has been one of your most memorable moments being a fan of the Cubs and Indians?
A: In the 50’s what people did back then was to try to listen to the radio just to see how the black players did. The color barrier was broke in 1947. It was a new thing to see black men on TV or to even see black men in uniform because there were no black players until 1947 and Jackie Robinson came. Cleveland had Larry Doby and Cubs had black players before the Yankees and a whole lot of other teams. We sat around with family and listened to those games that was a tradition of black families in the fifties. We actually got a chance to see Larry Doby live an in person in Detroit. The Indians had three black players early on and Detroit didn't get a black player until 1958.
Q: What is the most heartache you felt being a fan?
A: The team would always start off good and then fail. It wasn't a heartache for me it was more had to do with rooting for the underdog. The cubs went a long time without actually getting to the postseason it has been seventy-one years since they’ve gone to the World Series and 108 years since they won. They had a lot of collapses like in 1969 and again in 2003 with the black manager Dusty Baker came one game away from getting to the world series. People have lived through a generation and died without them getting in it. So thats the biggest disappointment when they kept getting close but never would win.
Q: What makes the Cubs exciting and special?
A: Because the Cubs have such a young team which is exciting they’re overachievers and a lot of them are on only in there early twenties. They are the most exciting Cubs of all time. Its special because I dreamed about this World Series all my life. The Cubs playing the Indians and it happened before I died.
Q: How did you feel when the Cubs won and how is the atmosphere being by Wrigley’s Field?
A: I felt like it was a crazy last game and unpredictable world series no one knew for sure who was going to win. This world series will be remembered as a classic. Wrigley Field sits in a neighborhood and you see the whole neighborhood with the people watching the game actually on the roof of their homes watching.You can be on the train and look down and see the game it is so much different than other ball parks and it feels like you there and the experience is much
better and you can hear the crowd like your at the park and you don't even need to have a ticket thats how great it is.
Baseball is a national past time for Americans across the country. This year the Chicago Cubs made history and came back from a three to one deficit to beat the Cleveland Indians and they won their first World Series since 1908.
Emmett Rucker a man living in the golden years of his life raised in between Chicago and Detroit who now resides in Chicago grew up loving baseball. Emmett’s two favorite teams are the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago Cubs.
Question: What made you become such a fan of the Cubs and Indians?
Answer: I’ve been a Cleveland Indians fan for sixty-two years. In Detroit back in 1954 and 1955 Tigers only saw American League teams and the National League teams didn't come to Detroit. So I was a Cleveland fan because they had black players. We could pick up the Chicago station in Detroit or the Cleveland station in Detroit. These stations were clearer than some Detroit stations. So we pulled for the Cleveland Indians who we could hear on the radio and we pulled for the Chicago Cubs because both teams had black players Detroit didn’t. That is why I was a Cubs fan and Indians fan and not a Tigers fan because we weren’t allowed to go to any games with the Tigers unless black players came to the park on the other team.
Q: When did you start watching baseball?
A: When I was about eight years old so that would’ve been in 1952.
Q: Who is one of your favorite players on the team right now?
A: Addison Russell
Q: What are some of his strengths that make you like him as a player?
A: He’s able to get hits in the clutch he doesn't really hit that good but when runners are on base and you need him he comes through. Besides that he’s one of the best shortstops that I have seen in my lifetime as far as fielding the ball.
Q: What has been one of your most memorable moments being a fan of the Cubs and Indians?
A: In the 50’s what people did back then was to try to listen to the radio just to see how the black players did. The color barrier was broke in 1947. It was a new thing to see black men on TV or to even see black men in uniform because there were no black players until 1947 and Jackie Robinson came. Cleveland had Larry Doby and Cubs had black players before the Yankees and a whole lot of other teams. We sat around with family and listened to those games that was a tradition of black families in the fifties. We actually got a chance to see Larry Doby live an in person in Detroit. The Indians had three black players early on and Detroit didn't get a black player until 1958.
Q: What is the most heartache you felt being a fan?
A: The team would always start off good and then fail. It wasn't a heartache for me it was more had to do with rooting for the underdog. The cubs went a long time without actually getting to the postseason it has been seventy-one years since they’ve gone to the World Series and 108 years since they won. They had a lot of collapses like in 1969 and again in 2003 with the black manager Dusty Baker came one game away from getting to the world series. People have lived through a generation and died without them getting in it. So thats the biggest disappointment when they kept getting close but never would win.
Q: What makes the Cubs exciting and special?
A: Because the Cubs have such a young team which is exciting they’re overachievers and a lot of them are on only in there early twenties. They are the most exciting Cubs of all time. Its special because I dreamed about this World Series all my life. The Cubs playing the Indians and it happened before I died.
Q: How did you feel when the Cubs won and how is the atmosphere being by Wrigley’s Field?
A: I felt like it was a crazy last game and unpredictable world series no one knew for sure who was going to win. This world series will be remembered as a classic. Wrigley Field sits in a neighborhood and you see the whole neighborhood with the people watching the game actually on the roof of their homes watching.You can be on the train and look down and see the game it is so much different than other ball parks and it feels like you there and the experience is much
better and you can hear the crowd like your at the park and you don't even need to have a ticket thats how great it is.
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