Summer of Shadows is an intertwining narrative that tells
the story of the 1954 Cleveland Indians (which would etch
itself in history as one of the greatest baseball teams
in MLB history) and the infamous murder of the wife of
Dr. Sam Sheppard in their home along the shore of Lake
Erie - which held both the city and the nation spellbound
that summer. Both of these generation-defining stories
take place in the final days of the "Best Location in the
Nation," the nickname for the Cleveland of the 1950s,
which truly was one of the great and most influential
cities in America. These two parallel tragedies harbinger
an onslaught of adversity that dragged Cleveland from its
lofty standing as a leading American city to one with a
bleak - even comic - reputation.
