RYAN WHIRTY
Special to The Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The end of the life of former Indians great Luke Easter is, tragically, well known — on March 29, 1979, the union steward was murdered by robbers as he made a late-night bank deposit. He was 63.
But even more than 36 years later, very little is known about the enigmatic, charismatic slugger's very roots. The beginning of Luscious "Luke" Easter's life — he was born exactly 100 years ago today — isn't so much shrouded in mystery as it is vastly misunderstood and unexplored.