Ocker attended Buchtel High School in Akron, Ohio, graduating in 1960.
He attended Ohio State University, and graduated with a degree in political science in 1964.
[1] He worked for one year at the Sandusky Register, and was hired by the Akron Beacon Journal in 1967.
[2] For the Beacon Journal, he covered high school sports for three years,[1] the Cleveland Cavaliers for ten years, and covered the Cleveland Indians from 1981 through 2013.
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