Epplin married his wife Jane Healy in May 2023; their daughter Ava Healy Epplin was born in March 2024.[3] The couple currently reside in Astoria, QueensinNew York City.[2]
Epplin is a freelance sportswriter who has written for a number of publications on popular culture and sports.
He is best known for his book Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball which focuses on the 1948 Cleveland Indians. In particular, it focuses at Indians players Larry Doby, the first African-American player in the American League and second ever after Jackie Robinson, Bob Feller, the team's star pitcher, Satchel Paige, considered to be one of the greatest Negro league pitchers in history, and team owner Bill Veeck, one of the most eccentric figures in baseball history.[4][5]
In 2022, Our Team was nominated for the Casey Award, given out to the best baseball book of the year.[6]
^"Luke Epplin". Twitter. I'm writing another book. It's about Dr. J and Moses Malone and the 1983 Philadelphia 76ers and that wild period in professional basketball when ABA players got absorbed into the NBA.
