One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Cannon Street All-Stars dreamed of playing in the 1955 Little League World Series. Their biggest obstacle didn’t come on the field. In the year that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus, these Black 12-year-olds became unlikely civil rights pioneers—and faced the wrath of a white society that wasn’t ready to change. Josh Levin is One Year’s editorial director. One Year’s senior producer is Evan Chung. This episode was produced by Kelly Jones and Evan Chung, with additional production by Sophie Summergrad. It was edited by Joel Meyer and Derek John, Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. Join Slate Plus to get the first three episodes of One Year: 1955 right away—and a bonus 1955 story at the end of the season. Slate Plus members also get to listen to all Slate podcasts without any ads. Sign up now to support One Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.4	Hey there hang-up listeners Josh Levine here. The new season of one year, the other
0:37.8	slate podcast that I host is out now and you're about to hear the very first
0:42.3	episode.
0:44.1	We're focusing on 1955, and this story is about a group of black 12-year-olds who dreamed
0:50.3	of playing in the Little League World Series,
0:52.6	and had to face the white establishment in the Jim Crow South.
0:56.6	I hope you like it, and we'll be talking a little bit more
0:59.5	about it and take you behind the scenes
1:01.3	in an upcoming episode of Hangup.
1:04.0	All right, here it is.
1:08.5	This podcast contains language
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